Jeffries Declares Democrats’ Opposition To Working With Stephen Miller, Trump Admin’s ‘Extremism’

The top House Democrat said Sunday he would refuse to work with President Donald Trump’s incoming chief of staff.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said there would be no opportunity to work with newly appointed White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller due to his “extremism,” he told Jonathan Karl, the host of ABC News’s “This Week.” Jeffries may become the next speaker of the House when Democrats officially take control of Congress in January, and he said he would not continue the same level of contact he had with Susie Wiles, who departed the top White House post Friday.

Karl began the exchange by referencing Jeffries’s Friday post to X calling for Miller to be fired.

“Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands,” Jeffries said in the post. “His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.”

“It’s an awful choice,” Jeffries said. “Stephen Miller is the architect of Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation machine and has unleashed billions of taxpayer dollars to brutalize and kill American citizens, like Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, and, at the same period of time, to violently target law-abiding, immigrant families and communities all across the country.”