House Leader Hakeem Jeffries won reelection Tuesday as the Democratic leader, receiving support from his colleagues despite the party's inability to win back majority control of the chamber in the November election.
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00:00It's an honor and a privilege to have the opportunity to continue to serve in the position as
00:06House Democratic leader and to work with this extraordinary group of public servants
00:12Who the caucus has entrusted to make sure
00:16that in the next Congress we can continue the fight for everyday Americans and push back against any effort and
00:26extremism that we see from the House Republican
00:30conference
00:31or from the incoming administration
00:34We are prepared to work hard to find bipartisan common ground with our Republican colleagues and the incoming administration
00:41On any issue whenever and wherever possible, but at the same period of time we will push back against far-right
00:49Extremism whenever necessary in terms of the so-called lame-duck
00:55Session, there are three high priority items that we hope we can get to over the next several weeks
01:02First, of course, we need to make sure that we keep the government open
01:07That we fund the government in a manner that meets the needs of the American people in terms of their health their safety and their
01:14economic well-being and we should do so before
01:18December 20th in a manner consistent with the
01:22Bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act this notion of some mandate to make massive
01:29far-right extreme policy changes, it doesn't exist
01:34It doesn't exist
01:35and so in the new Congress for anything to happen particularly as it relates to an
01:42enlightened spending agreement or
01:45ensuring that
01:47America does not default on our debt and crash the economy and hurt everyday Americans for the first time in our nation's history
01:54It's clear House Republicans cannot do it on their own