{"id":2653158,"date":"2026-09-01T17:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-blindsided-after-dems-help-force-vote-denouncing-socialism\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:30:07","slug":"jeffries-blindsided-after-dems-help-force-vote-denouncing-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-blindsided-after-dems-help-force-vote-denouncing-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries blindsided after Dems help force vote denouncing socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fjeffries-blindsided-after-dems-help-force-vote-denouncing-socialism%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=2653158&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>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was caught off guard when two of his caucus members, Representatives Marie Glusenkamp Perez and Jared golden, joined Republicans in voting to bring a resolution denouncing socialism to the floor. The vote ended narrowly at 210-208,with the defectors&#8217; support preventing the resolution from passing. Jeffries expressed that he was not informed beforehand about the move, a sentiment echoed by critics who pointed out his lack of leadership. The vote took place shortly after the House passed a funding measure to keep the government open through mid-December, amid resistance from conservative Republicans concerned about certain provisions and Democratic support. The incident highlights internal divisions within the Democratic caucus and the fragile balance of power in the House. Additionally, the package included legislation like the Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act, which aims to extend federal regulation deadlines on lobster and crab fishing. Rep. Glusenkamp Perez emphasized the importance of including working peopel in environmental discussions, citing her personal experience with fishing and advocating for the voices of communities dependent on these industries.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"790\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) was blindsided on Tuesday when two members of his caucus voted with House Speaker <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"7043\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) to put a resolution denouncing socialism on the floor for a full vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a 210-208 vote, Reps. Marie Glusenkemp Perez (D-WA) and Jared Golden (D-ME) voted with 207 House Republicans and independent Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA) to bring several pieces of legislation to the floor, including a resolution condemning and denouncing socialism. The defection of GlusenKemp Perez and Golden, two centrist Democrats, was sufficient to prevent a tie, which is the same as a vote failing under House rules.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4708607\/jeffries-blindsided-two-house-democrats-join-gop-force-vote-denouncing-socialism\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Jeffries blindsided after two House Democrats join GOP to force vote on denouncing socialism<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4708195\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-trump-ai-data-centers-mar-a-lago\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>AOC taunts Trump on data centers with Mar-a-Lago pitch as divides build<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4708232\/chip-roy-blasts-witness-who-wouldnt-denounce-releasing-individuals-who-enter-the-us-illegally\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Chip Roy blasts witness who wouldn\u2019t denounce releasing individuals who enter the US illegally<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeffries told reporters that he wasn\u2019t informed of the decision ahead of time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t get a heads up. You\u2019ll have to talk to Katherine,\u201d Jeffries said, referring to House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an X post, socialist influencer Emma Vigeland called out Jeffries for being \u201cleft in the dark\u201d about the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPitiful. [Nancy] Pelosi was no leftist, but she could whip her caucus. She would never have been left in the dark like this,\u201d Vigeland wrote. \u201cJeffries is bad at the basics of his job, and passing the buck onto Katherine Clark is poor leadership. NFL quarterbacks talk like this before they\u2019re benched.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pitiful. Pelosi was no leftist, but she could whip her caucus. She would never have been left in the dark like this.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries is bad at the basics of his job, and passing the buck onto Katherine Clark is poor leadership. NFL quarterbacks talk like this before they&#8217;re benched. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kx07hOduxA\">https:\/\/t.co\/Kx07hOduxA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmaVigeland\/status\/2094873303567483020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote occurred shortly after the House, along bipartisan lines, passed a funding measure keeping the government open through mid-December. Conservative hardliners, upset with provisions within the funding bill and the fact that Johnson was relying on Democratic support, pledged to tank other measures from coming to the floor in retribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gambit almost succeeded as five House Republicans voted against bringing the socialism resolution to the floor. Given the narrow GOP majority and lawmaker absences, Johnson could not afford to lose more than two Republicans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also included in the package of measures to be voted on by the full House was the Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act of 2026. The bill extends the deadlines for the federal government to issue new regulations on lobster and crab fishing. Golden, who is retiring this year from a battleground House seat, is the prime Democratic co-sponsor on the bill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4707920\/21-seats-mike-johnson-decide-house-majority\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4707920\/21-seats-mike-johnson-decide-house-majority\/\"><strong>THE 21 SEATS MIKE JOHNSON SAYS WILL DECIDE THE HOUSE MAJORITY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Gluesenkamp Perez shared a story about her son having \u201cpulled his first fish out of the Columbia River on Sunday night,\u201d and that the \u201cDC bubble\u201d doesn\u2019t get \u201cworking waterfronts require working people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNature is not a terrarium\u2013and you don\u2019t get effective environmentalism without the input of people who make their livelihoods and heritage on the water-whether we\u2019re talking about lobsters or sea lions\u2013working people need a seat at the table and electeds need to listen to them, not data from the 1990s,\u201d Gluesenkamp Perez wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffries blindsided as Dems join GOP to force socialism vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2653159,"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\/2026\/08\/AP26194748304448.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3685,50470,5894,12428,4351],"class_list":["post-2653158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-jeffries-2","tag-politics","tag-socialism","tag-voting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26194748304448.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653158","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\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653161,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653158\/revisions\/2653161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}