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HAPPENING NOW: Hakeem Jeffries Holds Up Final Vote on “Big, Beautiful Bill” with Embarrassing Hours-Long Filibuster – And It Backfires When He Flips One Undecided GOPer to YES (VIDEO) 

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is mounting an ill-fated stand against the seemingly inevitable passage of President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” with a stupid filibuster that is already blowing up in his face.

The vote was supposed to occur earlier this morning, but Jeffries decided to grandstand for several hours by reading supposed letters from Americans worried about the bill beginning just before 5 AM ET.

Jeffries is being allowed to drone on and on thanks to the House’s “Magic Minute” rule. As ABC News notes, this is a procedural gambit that allows House leadership as much time as they want to speak after debate on a bill has concluded.

His stunt is so pathetic that it even put some of his fellow comrades to sleep.

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