Hakeem Jeffries Slams ‘Wannabe King’ Trump As His GOP Cronies Try To Ram Budget Bill Through

Jeffries' criticism comes after a controversy in which the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed a congressional staffer in Rep. Jerry Nadler's office.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday bashed President Donald Trump as a “wannabe king” and his Republican followers as “rubber stamps.”

Jeffries’ criticism comes at a time when Trump’s massive tax bill, which will be detrimental to the working class, is up for a vote in the Senate and just after a controversy in which the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed a congressional staffer in Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) office.

“We don’t work for Donald Trump, we don’t work for the administration, we don’t work for Elon Musk, we work for the American people. And we have a responsibility to serve as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch,” Jeffries told CNN’s Dana Bash. “It’s unfortunate that our Republican colleagues continue to be nothing more than rubber stamps for Trump’s reckless and extreme agenda, and the American people, I think, will ultimately reject that next year when we will take back control of the House of Representatives.”

Bash asked Jeffries for his thoughts about DHS handcuffing Nadler’s staffer as they were detaining migrants in the same building.

DHS said they temporarily detained the staffer because they were “verbally confrontational and physically blocked access to the office,” but Nadler warned that the arrest represents a “deeply troubling disregard for legal boundaries.”