Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been holding the House floor for an unlimited time slamming

[lostincalifornia]

House republicans and trump for this horrible bill since 5:00 A.M. EST, calling them out for the cuts they are inflicting on the most vulnerable in our society.

He is calling them out by name.

House leaders can speak for an unlimited time according to House rules, and Hakkem Jeffries is in no hurry to give up the floor.

[dweller]

1. Debate is ongoing since 4 am

https://m.

✌🏻

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Republicans run great risks with this bill

Risks of being labeled The Devil. Serious damage to their brand. Once the public sees it, they can't unsee it.

[lostincalifornia]

3. Realistically I am not sure most of the public are even paying attention. They will though, after the damage

is done, and they are personally affected.

[Biophilic]

5. But for most of them that doesn't happen until after the midterms.

[in2herbs]

6. Except the costs for their cruelty is not scheduled to go into effect until 2026 and beyond, meaning that

any blue tsunami Ds achieve in 2026 and 2028, the Ds will get the blame for the state of the economy because voters will still be stupid.

[eppur_se_muova]

20. *****THIS RIGHT HERE***** ... as I have been trying to keep up with the scheduling, it's becoming clearer & clearer ....

Repugs are like the guest at a banquet who cuts a truly stomach-turning fart, then looks at his innocent neighbor with a scowl and says "I can't believe you just did that !"..

[markodochartaigh]

21. This speaks

to the heart of the problem, the education of the electorate. The deliberate mal-education and ignorance of the electorate.
Sure, one third of the electorate are authoritarians. And one third are anti-authoritarian. But the third in the middle who don't really care as long as they get their hamberders and sportsball, many of these people could be converted into anti-authoritarians if they could be educated to understand that their access to their hamberders and sportsball is going to be restricted by the authoritarians.
We can't expect to have a democracy which produces good results for the general population with an ignorant electorate anymore than an authoritarian electorate would produce good results for the general population.

[tulipsandroses]

26. Yep. republicans break shit. Leave a mess for democrats to clean up. The idiots that don't pay attention, blame dems

when they can't clean up the mess fast enough and then put republicans back in power to create more mess.

[OMGWTF]

36. Democrats have been cleaning up Rethuglican messes since 1933.

[InstantGratification]

7. The problem I fear:

The tax cuts will happen quickly but the spending cuts are delayed. Haven't seen the timeline for the final version, but the Senate version pushed many of the unpopular cuts out into the 2028/2029 time frame. The pricks know we are going to take the House and maybe the Senate and Oval Office by then and they are going to lie and blame Democrats. MAGA is stupid enough to believe it.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. The simple reality is, at this point.....

that even if the Dems had the House and Senate SUPER majority AND the presidency. for TWENTY PLUS years........If they did nothing else, it would take them DECADES, to just straighten out what has already been done in the two trump periods so far, maybe even decades more if Trump finishes out this term........Seriously folks........
AND, there is certainly a distinct possibility that if the Republicans continue at their current pace for the next 3 1/2 years......recovery would be an impossibility........Game over, done.......

And it is not JUST the U.S they are screwing up,..........but the entire world changes caused by this group of RepubliCONs.......

I often ask.......Do these RepubliCONs and 74 Million MAGAot Voters have children and/or grand children, or is it that they just plain don't care about them, only about themselves..........I fear it is the later..........

[mdbl]

8. Sorry but if Dump can get re-elected

There is no shame in this country any longer. They will vote for Satan if he tells them he loves racists.

[Starbeach]

4. 5 hours in....

Master class in wisdom and satire and plain decency.

[SSJVegeta]

9. Wait unlimited time? Really?

So then. Does that mean if each house member spoke for ten hours, the bull would never pass?

[lostincalifornia]

11. nope, only for the minority and majority leaders, not others

[SSJVegeta]

12. Thank you! My respect for Jeffries is increasing.

It will be full throttle if he can actually stop this.

[lostincalifornia]

14. That will happen only if he can shame enough of the republicans he has called out by name to vote against

this "big ugly bill"

[eppur_se_muova]

22. The "Big Billionaire's Bailout".

We need a poster comparing Biden's BBB (Build Back Better) to Turnip's BBB.

[DENVERPOPS]

34. Once again

we are going for broke............this bill passing would be the absolute FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN for the future of the United States 99%

If it passes, 300-320 Million American Citizens should bend over and kiss their collective asses goodbye.............Seriously, this is it......

[PunkinPi]

10. Thank you, Leader Jefferies and House Dems! nt

[C_U_L8R]

13. Keep talking.

The Republicans have flights to catch.
It would be a shame to spoil their vacation plans.

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Give him some Adderall

it works for our infamous leader............and who knows how many of his CABAL......The documented White House "Pharmacy" is open, just like in his previous term.........no Rx needed, no name, just drug and amount issued to anyone in the White House or just visiting the White House...

[mcar]

15. Thank you, Leader Jeffries!

[IronLionZion]

16. Sounds like filibuster

I don't know enough about how this works. I hope he can stop this awful bill from passing.

[LymphocyteLover]

17. House version of a filibuster though I don't think it's an official thing in the House

[IronLionZion]

19. It's not official. The House got rid of their filibuster long ago

[newdeal2]

18. Doubtful. But it's good to get the record straight before the last vote

[Bettie]

23. I hope he holds it as long as Booker did

and makes them all miss their 4th of July stuff.

[SSJVegeta]

27. Would be another small burden on their conscience

...taking away people's freedoms on a day we celebrate freedom.

[Alice B.]

25. I just peeked at the AP YouTube live video and its accompanying comment thread...

A whole lot of TSF's cult cheering on our inability to stop the bill.

They're like the guy who burns down the house he's living in in order to spite an ex who already moved out.

Yeah. You're really showing us. *eyeroll*

[benfranklin1776]

28. Yah celebrating the cutting of their own throats 😡

Definitely members of a death cult. They are a cancer on all of humanity. 🤬

[wryter2000]

31. Hi

My real name is Alice B.

[Alice B.]

37. Hi! I feel like we should trade! For me it was a nod to Alice Roosevelt Longworth (I know, she was an R, lol)

[Alice Kramden]

41. We can start an Alice club

[Alice B.]

42. I'm in!

[SSJVegeta]

29. Hope he beats bookers record

Forcing them into the weekend would be incredible.

[wryter2000]

30. Don't you know

Dem leadership is all weak and old and needs to be replaced with younger people who want to fight?

in case I didn't make it clear.

[et tu]

38. again, we have a big tent

and both are needed!

[AllaN01Bear]

32. ""

[Emile]

39. Still going strong! Amazing

[WinstonSmith4740]

40. Just watched him wrap up.

I would have liked it if he had read The Declaration of Independence like some were calling for, but he made his damn point anyway., and the cohesion shown afterwards was awesome. We need way, way more of this from Democrats.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Maddow Blog-Jeffries breaks McCarthy's House floor speech record in bid to delay GOP megabill vote

Three months after Sen. Cory Booker broke his chamber's record for the longest speech ever, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries broke the House's record.

Obviously, what matters is the impact the Republican megabill will have on the public, but as symbolic developments go, it was good to see @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social break the record for the longest speech in House history. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-03T17:32:53.612Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hakeem-jeffries-house-floor-speech-record-trump-bill-rcna216772

Three months later, as July gets underway, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn’t manage to speak for 25 hours, but the New York Democrat, like Booker, broke his own institution’s record.

As of 1:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jeffries was continuing to deliver remarks after speaking for more than eight hours and 35 minutes.

During congressional debates, the vast majority of members are only allowed to deliver brief, minute-long remarks. But three members — the House speaker, majority leader and minority leader — can exploit what are known as “magic minutes,” allowing them to speak as long as they wish.

In 2018, for example, Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader at the time, stood on the House floor for over eight hours, seeking a vote on protections for Dreamers. It broke the institution’s record for the longest speech ever delivered on the House floor.

Three years later, then-Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California broke Pelosi’s record, holding the floor to condemn the Democrats’ Build Back Better legislation.

Now, it’s Jeffries, who made a devastating case against the inaptly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act, who holds the top slot.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lt2p63ee422g

Link to tweet

......The Democratic leader might not have changed any GOP minds, but his record-breaking presentation brought some much-needed attention to the case against the most regressive legislative package in at least a generation.

[Gimpyknee]

44. BFD

[Cha]

46. What are you actually saying about Hakeem

Jeffries? He's standing up for America

[Cha]

45. Mahalo, Leader Hakeem Jeffries! 💙

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