House Democrats' leader Hakeem Jeffries tells NPR the looming national debt crisis will be resolved without his party submitting to demands by Republicans who want to tie spending cuts to a debt limit hike. 'We are not going to pay a ransom note.'
Jeffries added that there is"a time and a place to have a discussion about future spending" and he thinks those conversations should happen later in the year when Congress traditionally decides spending levels through its appropriations process."We will find a vehicle legislatively," Jeffries said, that allows Democrats to vote with"a handful of reasonable Republicans" to save the country from economic calamity.
Jeffries, 52, is Rep. Nancy Pelosi's successor as the leader of House Democrats, and the first Black leader of a party in Congress. After last year's midterm elections, his party is narrowly in the minority. Republicans have a four seat majority in the House. But Jeffries believes his caucus will be able to wield some power whenever Republicans wrestle with their own internal divisions.
In our conversation, Jeffries offered no critique of his fellow Democrats saying,"we're all off to a great start as a family, nor even a critique of Speaker McCarthy, whom he has dismissed in the past as a"sellout" to Donald Trump.Speaker Kevin McCarthy SI: I want to clarify this. A year or two back, you said McCarthy is not a serious person because he had sold himself effectively to Donald Trump. But you're saying you're now in a room with him and having productive conversations.
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