Black Caucus Defends Hakeem

Congressional Black Caucus rallies behind Jeffries, fires back at Slotkin's call for new Democratic leadership

The Congressional Black Caucus closed ranks around House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday evening, issuing a joint statement that dismissed Sen. Elissa Slotkin's public call for "significant new leadership" in the Democratic Party, and accused the Michigan senator of enabling the very administration she claims to oppose.

The statement, signed by CBC Chair Yvette D. Clarke of New York and former chairs Reps. Steven Horsford of Nevada and Joyce Beatty of Ohio, cast Slotkin's remarks as a distraction from the party's mission. But it also contained a factual error about Slotkin's voting record, undermining the credibility of the CBC's own counterattack.

The clash lays bare a fault line running through the Democratic minority: a party that cannot agree on who should lead it, or even get its facts straight when attacking one of its own members.

For voters watching from the outside, the spectacle offers a useful window into how the opposition party is spending its energy, not on policy, but on an internal power struggle it cannot resolve.

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