Hakeem Jeffries, a music creator advocate and copyright expert, has been named House Democratic Leader.
While Democrats will be relegated to the House minority in the new year for the 118th Congress, they will have a certain amount of leverage because the Republican majority is expected to be so slim and McCarthy’s hold on his party fragile.
as two New Yorkers are poised to helm the Democratic leadership in Congress. They live about a mile apart in Brooklyn. “There’s a genuine sense that he wants to develop relationships and working partnerships with many of us,” she said.
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