Hakeem Jeffries

"Democrats want the credit for their social policies and the government handouts they're planning, but they don't want to own the price tag," Sen. John Thune said.

"It's not my expectation, given Kevin McCarthy's past practice, that he will do anything other than bend the knee to Donald Trump," said the House Democratic Caucus chair.

The New York congressman criticized the freshman from Utah, implying that his vote to object the election certification was unpatriotic.

"Slavery was not a 'necessary evil.' It was a crime against humanity, anchored in kidnap, rape, torture, lynching and the systematic oppression," Representative Hakeem Jeffries said.

New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries urged the federal government to show "maximum transparency" about its stimulus loan program to support small companies with their payroll costs.

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, a House manager, pointed out that the Senate has conducted fifteen impeachment trials and there were witnesses at every single one.

"It's clear that there is none of the bipartisan support that Speaker Pelosi said for months was essential to impeachment," Chris Wallace said.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) also said that the American people "deserve to know" if Trump is a "legitimate president" or a "Russian asset."

"It ends the dominance of big, dark, special interest money in politics and it empowers small donors and the grassroots," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the steps of the Capitol.

Trump "has presided over and engaged in directly a series of racially insensitive remarks," Jeffries said Wednesday.

"What we're unwilling to do is to pay a $5 billion ransom note for a medieval border wall that Trump wants to put forward that he initially said…that Mexico would pay for," New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries told CNN.

The Congresswoman-elect said the Politico article only had anonymous sources.

"Spread love; it's the Brooklyn way," Representative Hakeem Jeffries responded.