House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has said that he now opposes Medicare for All, flipping on his previous stance just as Democrats are on the cusp of potentially winning back control of the House. Medicare for All is “not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support,” Jeffries said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Jeffries declined to say…

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  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    Party leaders of the house and senate can be called to be reselected at any time with a relatively small number of supporters for a vote to be held. its an internal vote amongst the Dem party members of that body. But they never call for that vote. So its not just Schumer and Jeffries, its most of the reps in congress.