[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The White House is calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to apologize after the New York Democrat vowed to fight the Trump agenda 'in the streets.'
Jeffries made his remarks during a press conference in New York on Friday morning where the lawmaker and others gathered to blast the new administration's attempts to freeze federal funding earlier this week.
Surrounded by officials from programs that could have been impacted by the freeze of grants and loans, Jeffries claimed New Yorkers and Americans are 'under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda.'
He said that agenda is trying to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations and stick New Yorkers and the working class Americans with the bill.
'That's not acceptable. We're going to fight it legislatively, we are going to fight it in the courts, and we're going to fight it in the streets,' Jeffries said.
But the White House responded by calling his comments a 'sick call for violence' and claimed it 'incited his followers.'
'Will Minority Leader Jeffries apologize for this disgusting threat?' the White House put out in a release.
'Or will he double down on the same calls for violence that have plagued the country for years?' it continued.
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