Washington, DC – Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press conference where he highlighted that House Democrats will continue to put People Over Politics and find bipartisan common ground, while standing up to extremism wherever necessary. 

LEADER JEFFRIES: Good morning, everyone. The elections are over and the American people have spoken. Former President Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States of America. Now, Democrats have fallen a few seats short of reclaiming a majority. House Democrats in the new Congress will work to find bipartisan common ground whenever and wherever possible with the incoming administration in a manner consistent with our values, but at the same time, always push back whenever necessary against far-right extremism that will hurt the American people.

We will continue to exercise common sense. We will always try to find common ground. But we will also vigorously defend the common good. We need to focus on the issues that matter, beginning, of course, with addressing the economic challenges facing everyday Americans who, for far too long in this country—not simply for years, but for decades—have been struggling paycheck to paycheck. We look forward to leaning into that work in a very narrowly-divided Congress next year. And we extend the hand of bipartisanship in that effort, while also making clear that we’re going to defend Social Security, we’re going to defend Medicare, we’re going to defend the Affordable Care Act, we’re going to defend voting rights and we will continue to defend a woman’s freedom to make her own reproductive healthcare decisions at all times.

Full press conference can be watched here.

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