Hakeem Jeffries delayed the vote on President Trump's 800-page Big Beautiful Bill with a lengthy speech. He utilized his magic minute privilege to speak uninterrupted for over seven hours, arguing against the bill's harmful provisions. However, pro-Trump supporters leveraged a past tweet from 2021, in which Jeffries called the filibuster a relic of Jim Crow, to accuse him of hypocrisy. The uncertainty of the bill's fate was resolved after Trump applied pressure, leading to Republican holdouts aligning with the party's stance.
Jeffries, visibly energized as he invoked his magic minute privilege, railed against Trump's 800-page bill, which packages a broad array of policies into one sweeping legislative push.
The filibuster is a Jim Crow era relic that has been used to stop progress for decades. Enough, Jeffries wrote on X in 2021, a tweet that MAGA allies are now weaponizing against his extended floor protest.
With Republicans controlling the House by a razor-thin margin, the bill's fate was technically uncertain in the early hours, but behind-the-scenes negotiations and pressure from Trump himself paid off.
The magic minute, which is a House procedural quirk that lets party leaders speak as long as they want once debate has ended, has allowed Jeffries to speak uninterrupted from 5 a.m. into the afternoon.
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