Jeffries faces leadership test with limited leverage over Democrats who backed socialism vote

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is facing a delicate test of his leadership over the House Democratic Caucus after two centrists crossed party lines and helped Republicans force a politically fraught vote on condemning socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America. Reps. Jared Golden (D-ME) and Marie Gluese

GOP leaders scheduled the vote after Democratic primary voters embraced a number of democratic socialist candidates.

Several Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans to adopt a resolution that formally denounces socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America. The move reflects increasing pressure on Democrats to respond to the successes of DSA-backed candidates in primaries around the country as

The resolution by Republican Representative Jeff Crank of Colorado says that socialist systems lead to mass human suffering.

The nonbinding resolution, introduced by Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), asked lawmakers to condemn and denounce “socialism in all its forms,” including the increasingly influential Democratic Socialists of America movement, and oppose the implementation of socialist policies in the US.