Jeffries responds to Kushner meeting backlash: ‘No one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass’

Inside the backlash over the Jeffries-Kushner meeting

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ' long-standing tensions with his party's left flank resurfaced this week after news broke of his meeting with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Why it matters: Jeffries will have to make nice with the left next year if Democrats win back the House with only a narrow majority. Blowups like this are not helping. The Democratic leader defended the meeting in a video posted to social media on Monday, saying that Kushner "asked for a meeting, and I too

Aug 26, 2026

Jeffries responds to Kushner meeting backlash: ‘No one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday said that “no one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass,” in a post on the social media platform X. The video comes after he faced backlash for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law. The New York Times reported on Sunday that the two met…

Aug 25, 2026

Jeffries confirms Kushner meeting, vows ‘Trump cartel’ won’t get a pass

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) confirmed his private meeting with Jared Kushner, then backtracked and vowed that no one in the “Trump cartel” would get a pass. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and an influential figure in the Trump administration, met with Jeffries sometime recently to discuss housing, immigration, and cost of living as […]

Aug 25, 2026