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Hakeem Jeffries: GOP will pay a heavy price for budget vote

We wrote this morning about Speaker Mike Johnson’s big night on Tuesday. Passing the budget resolution was the biggest legislative victory of his career.

Johnson needed to jumpstart President Donald Trump’s agenda, which passing the budget resolution allows him to do.

Yet it was also a seminal moment for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats. In many ways, the party-line vote was exactly what both leaders needed.

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