House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries did not hold back when sharing his opinion of President Trump's joint address to Congress, describing it as self-centered and "divisive."

"We are in an emergency, and I think it's all hands on deck," said Democratic House minority leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

The Brooklyn Democrat said Trump’s speech was all bluster and failed to include concrete proposals to improve the stuttering economy.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he will attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

Despite Trump’s targeting of transgender people and an anti-equality majority in the Senate, lawmakers refused to move the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act forward, with Democrats voting in unison to block it from advancing during a floor vote Monday night.

N.Y., said fellow House member Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., "ain't throwing no one off any single committee" after the Tennessee lawmaker said Democrats who derailed Thursday's censure vote should be removed from their committee assignments.

President Donald Trump on Monday directed his administration to "pause" military aid to Ukraine after the contentious meeting in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.