Four minutes into Trump’s address Tuesday, it was clear that Jeffries’s guidance wasn’t being heeded. Rep. Al Green of Texas stood up and shouted “no mandate to cut Medicaid!” while waving his cane at the president. After several warnings, he was then removed from the chamber.

Most of the Democrats who voted with House Republicans to rebuke Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s address to Congress won reelection by slim margins last year.

As the Trump administration soldiers on with its fast-moving agenda, Democrats are wrestling with how to effectively respond.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke out in defense of “a majority” of his party’s members who were demurely demonstrative during Trump’s speech “ [An] overwhelming majority of House Democrats approached the speech with the seriousness that it deserved on behalf of the American people,

U.S. Rep. and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has died, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Wednesday. He was 70. Turner had been in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday and attended President Donald Trump’s address before Congress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has died, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Wednesday. He was 70. Turner had been in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday and attended President Donald Trump’s address before Congress.

As mayor of Houston, he led the nation’s fourth-largest city through devastating flooding from Hurricane Harvey in 2017.