{"id":2455301,"date":"2025-07-03T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffriess-magic-minute-speech-breaks-record-and-stalls-house\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:58:11","slug":"jeffriess-magic-minute-speech-breaks-record-and-stalls-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffriess-magic-minute-speech-breaks-record-and-stalls-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries&#8217;s &#8216;magic minute&#8217; speech breaks record and stalls House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjeffriess-magic-minute-speech-breaks-record-and-stalls-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2455301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>during a recent session in the House, Minority Leader Hakeem jeffries delivered a record-breaking &#8220;magic minute&#8221; speech, lasting from 4:53 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., aimed at stalling the passage of President trump&#8217;s substantial tax and spending bill, referred to by Jeffries as the &#8220;one big, ugly bill.&#8221; His speech surpassed the previous record held by Kevin McCarthy and was intended to highlight the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-claims-of-gentrification-cannot-stop-new-development-in-south-los-angeles\/\" title=\"Judge: Claims of \u2018Gentrification\u2019 Cannot Stop New Development in South Los Angeles\u00a0\">potential negative impacts<\/a> of the legislation on Americans, especially concerning Medicaid funding and eligibility. Jeffries took the prospect to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-slams-one-big-ugly-bill-in-magic-minute-speech\/\" title=\"... slams &#039;one, ... ...&#039; in &#039;...&#039; ...\">read personal stories<\/a> demonstrating<\/a> the bill&#8217;s adverse effects on everyday peopel,arguing that it would harm vulnerable groups,including children,seniors,and veterans. The House had just experienced lengthy procedural debates and voted narrowly to advance the bill, prompting Jeffries to criticize the rushed process by which it was being pushed through. Throughout the speech,he called attention to various cuts within the bill,including those affecting Planned Parenthood and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,and also changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-manchins-new-tax-bill-could-help-hydrogen-electric-vehicles\/\" title=\"Joe Manchin\u2019s New Tax Bill Could Help Hydrogen Electric Vehicles\">green energy credits<\/a>. Jeffries framed his objections within the context of a broader Democratic strategy to oppose GOP initiatives in the current Congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Jeffries breaks &lsquo;magic minute&rsquo; record in speech to delay passage of &lsquo;big, beautiful bill&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2164525\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>&lsquo;s (D-NY) &ldquo;magic minute&rdquo; speech on Thursday surpassed a record for the longest House floor speech in history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His speech was the Democrats&rsquo; final effort to oppose and stall President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>&rsquo;s &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; passing through the House. Upon conclusion, the House will proceed to final passage of the GOP&rsquo;s massive tax and spending bill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3461990\/marcy-kaptur-sleeping-during-jeffries-magic-minute\/\">Marcy Kaptur&#8217;s staff pulls her from camera after she is caught snoozing during Jeffries&#8217;s &#8216;magic minute&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3461887\/four-republicans-flip-big-beautiful-bill-house-vote\/\">Who are the four Republicans Johnson had to flip in favor of Trump&#8217;s bill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3460887\/watch-live-house-debate-trump-big-beautiful-bill\/\">WATCH LIVE: Jeffries breaks &#8216;magic minute&#8217; record to stall &#8216;big, beautiful bill&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Jeffries took the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house\/\">House<\/a> floor at 4:53 a.m. and was still speaking at 1:30 p.m.<strong> <\/strong>The effort surpassed the previous record held by then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. He used his magic minute to speak for eight hours and 32 minutes before the passage of then-President Joe Biden&rsquo;s Build Back Better Act in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries was joined on the House floor by fellow Democrats, including one who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3461990\/marcy-kaptur-sleeping-during-jeffries-magic-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"f\">f<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3461990\/marcy-kaptur-sleeping-during-jeffries-magic-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ell asleep on camera<\/a>. He started in the early morning hours after House Republican leadership worked through the night to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3460639\/republican-big-beautiful-bill-clears-house-procedural-hurdle\/\">flip several holdouts<\/a> during a procedural vote, to blast the GOP&rsquo;s bill before the chamber votes on its final passage. He dubbed the GOP legislation the &ldquo;one big, ugly bill&rdquo; and said he would tell stories of people who could be hurt by its passage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3459817\/senate-final-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-what-made-it-in\/\"><strong>WHAT MADE IT INTO THE SENATE&rsquo;S FINAL &lsquo;BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL&rsquo; AND WHAT DIDN&rsquo;T<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to take my time and ensure that the American people fully understand how damaging this bill will be to their quality of life,&rdquo; Jeffries said early in his speech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the House&rsquo;s first passage of the legislation in May, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-speaks-ahead-of-biden-address-says-biden-admin-seems-to-have-given-up-on-selling-actual-unity\/\" title=\"McConnell Speaks Ahead Of Biden Address, Says Biden Admin \u2018Seems To Have Given Up On Selling Actual Unity\u2019\">minority leader spoke<\/a> for approximately 40 minutes. &ldquo;Magic minute&rdquo; is a procedural rule in the House that comes after the bill is debated and before final passage, allowing leadership of both parties to have unlimited speaking time.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries&rsquo;s speech came after a long day in the House. The floor remained open for more than seven hours, making history as the longest continuous vote, before GOP leadership was met with its first victory of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries signaled early on that he intended to take his &ldquo;sweet time&rdquo; to read personal stories from Americans who could be hurt by the changes to the bill regarding Medicaid funding and eligibility requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a result of the all-out Republican assault on healthcare in the U.S., people will die,&rdquo; Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I never thought that I&rsquo;d be on the House floor saying that this is a crime scene,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\">House Republicans<\/a> muscled the &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3460639\/republican-big-beautiful-bill-clears-house-procedural-hurdle\/\">procedural hurdle<\/a> on the floor overnight Thursday, voting 219 to 213 to adopt the rule, with one Republican joining all Democrats to vote against the procedural measure. The sole dissenter was Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).<\/p>\n<p>The rule vote was dramatic, starting at 9:33 p.m. on Wednesday and lasting until 3:24 a.m. Thursday. During the vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called into Sean Hannity&rsquo;s show on Fox News to say the floor will stay open until he can flip the votes needed. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll keep it open as long as it takes,&rdquo; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries accused the GOP of jamming the bill through &ldquo;every step of this journey&rdquo; as it rushed to meet the self-imposed deadline of July 4.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If Republicans were so proud of this one big, ugly bill, why did debate begin at 3:28 in the morning?&rdquo; Jeffries asked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concerns surrounding Medicaid have cropped up throughout the GOP&rsquo;s budget reconciliation process, which has taken place over the last several months and includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3461227\/medicaid-reductions-affect-seniors\/\">cuts in funding<\/a> as part of Republicans&rsquo; effort to offset spending to make Trump&rsquo;s 2017 tax cuts permanent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I rise today in strong opposition to Donald Trump&rsquo;s one big, ugly bill,&rdquo; Jeffries said. &ldquo;This disgusting abomination, the GOP tax scam that guts Medicaid, rips food from the mouths of children, seniors, and veterans and rewards billionaires with massive tax breaks.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3460639\/republican-big-beautiful-bill-clears-house-procedural-hurdle\/\"><strong>REPUBLICAN &lsquo;BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL&rsquo; CLEARS HOUSE HURDLE, SETS UP FINAL PASSAGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democratic leadership in the House has searched for ways to counter the trifecta in Washington, with Medicaid being a unifying area of messaging in the 119th Congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The massive tax and spending bill includes Medicaid work requirements for single, able-bodied adults.<\/p>\n<p>During his speech, Jeffries called the work requirements within the bill a &ldquo;smokescreen,&rdquo; claiming that the provision is a &ldquo;paperwork&rdquo; requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Medicaid, the legislation cuts into Planned Parenthood by stopping Medicaid funds from being allowed to reimburse health clinics that provide abortions, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, would be cut through work requirements and other eligibility changes.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes a phase-out of green energy credits passed under Biden&rsquo;s administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2164525\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2164525\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffries sets record for longest House speech to delay Trump&#8217;s bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3691,"featured_media":2455302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hakeem_jeffries_july2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3653,50470,58352,4752,4554],"class_list":["post-2455301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-house","tag-jeffries-2","tag-magic-minute","tag-record","tag-speech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hakeem_jeffries_july2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455305,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455301\/revisions\/2455305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}