The White House calls on the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries to apologize after the New York Democrat promised to fight the Trump agenda on the street.
Jeffries made his comments during a press conference in New York on Friday morning, where the legislator and others gathered to freeze the new government's attempts to freeze federal financing earlier this week.
Surrounded by civil servants of programs that could have been hit by the freezing of subsidies and loans, Jeffries claimed that New Yorkers and Americans are being attacked by an extreme Maga Republican agenda '.
He said that Agenda is trying to reduce taxes for billionaire donors and rich companies and New Yorkers and the working class Americans with the bill.
“That is not acceptable. We are going to fight legally, we are going to fight it against the courts, and we are going to fight it on the street, “said Jeffries.
But the White House responded by calling his comments a 'sick call for violence' and claimed that it 'turned on his followers'.
“Will minority leader Jeffries apologize for this disgusting threat?” The White House released in a release.
“Or will he call the same call for violence that the country has been hit for years?” It went on.
HOUSEMENTHER HAKEEM JEFFRIES (DN.Y.) spoke during a press conference in New York about the federal financing of the Trump administration on Friday where he promised to fight to fight
It is because members of both parties have warned in recent years and the accused of the aisle of encouraging political violence in recent years.
Jeffries communication director Christie Stephenson responded to the accusation of the White House with a statement.
“The idea that leader Jeffries supports violence is laughable,” she said.
'Republicans are the party that grant violent criminals who attack police officers. Democrats are the party of John Lewis and the right to submit the government peacefully, “said Stephenson.
This week Democrats were indignant after a memo of the Trump administration caused mass confusion.
The directive tried to freeze federal subsidies, loans and other financial aid before it was temporarily blocked in the federal court.
During his press conference on Friday, Jeffries called the Freeze 'illegal' and a 'Republican Ripoff schedule to steal taxpayer dollars'.
But Democrats are in the minority in both the house and the senate and have few options when it comes to blocking the White House to continue with his agenda and republicans in the congress who are preparing to continue with a series of priority Trump 2017 Tax legislation.
During the press conference, Jeffries was asked what he will do as a minority leader and which aspects he is most determined to block.
Jeffries said that Democratic officials and everyday Americans were 'in Defiance Up' this week freezing against federal financing.
“We fought there, we stopped and we will never surrender,” said Jeffries.
After the memo caused widespread confusion and legal challenges about the freezing, Trump's budget office has withdrawn the memo freezing from federal loans and grants you less than two days after it went out.
Jeffries also said on Friday that he is committed to working on the aisle where possible to 'improve life' for everyday Americans, but he said they would push back on 'extremely right extremism'.
