Hakeem Jeffries pledges Democrats will 'fight' Trump agenda 'in the streets'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is being criticized by Republicans aft pledging Democrats would combat President Donald Trump’s docket "in the streets."

"Right now, we're going to support absorption connected the request to look retired for mundane New Yorkers and mundane Americans who are nether battle by an utmost MAGA Republican docket that is trying to chopped taxes for billionaires, donors, and affluent corporations and past instrumentality New Yorkers and moving people Americans crossed the state with the bill," Jeffries said.

"That's not acceptable. We are going to combat it legislatively. We are going to combat it successful the courts. We're going to combat it successful the streets."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledged to combat Trump's agenda (Getty Images)

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., instantly demanded that Jeffries apologize.

"House Minority Leader [Jeffries] should promptly apologize for his usage of inflammatory and utmost rhetoric," Emmer wrote connected X. "President Trump and the Republicans are focused connected uniting the country; Jeffries needs to halt trying to disagreement it."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Jeffries’ bureau for clarification. 

A elder White House authoritative told Fox News, "Hakeem Jeffries indispensable apologize for this disgraceful telephone to violence."

The House Democratic person was holding a property league successful Brooklyn connected Friday aimed astatine criticizing Trump’s national backing frost and his handling of the tragic craft collision successful Washington, DC earlier this week.

Jeffries is the apical House Democrat (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Jeffries credited Democrats with stopping the Trump administration’s national backing freeze.

"As was demonstrated this week, House Democrats, Senate Democrats, Democratic governors, and mundane Americans each crossed the state roseate up successful defiance arsenic it relates to the illegal, unlawful, and utmost national backing frost that is portion of the Republican rip-off agenda," Jeffries said. "We fought it, we stopped it, and we volition ne'er surrender."

The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued an bid earlier this week pausing astir national backing portion directing agencies to behaviour thorough reviews of wherever payer dollars are being spent.

He criticized Trump's national backing frost and handling of the DCA craft collision (Donald Trump 2024 campaign)

The White House aboriginal clarified the memo to mean backing going toward progressive causes that Trump had explicitly blocked done enforcement orders. 

Nevertheless, it was inactive blocked by a national judge, and hours later, the memo was rescinded.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the OMB memo was rescinded successful airy of the tribunal bid but clarified that backing blocks acceptable up by Trump’s enforcement orders were inactive successful effect.