Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared on MS NOW's All In, where he made clear that because of the leadership of House Democrats, the House passed legislation to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits that Republicans let expire on January 1 and that Senate Republicans must follow our lead and vote to lower premiums.

CHRIS HAYES: Joining me now is House Democratic Leader, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Congressman, let's start on that vote and I want to ask you about the situation that's developing in Minneapolis and Portland as well. But first of all, how did it come to pass that a three-year extension of these subsidies passes the House the first week back with a Republican majority?

LEADER JEFFRIES: Well, it was a big victory for the American people. Every single House Democrat holding firm, making clear that we needed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits to prevent tens of millions of Americans from experiencing dramatically-increased health insurance costs that would have prevented them, of course, from being able to go see a doctor when they need one. We're talking about health insurance increases that in some instances amount to $1,000 or $2,000 per month. Unacceptable. That's for working class Americans, middle class Americans and everyday Americans. And for months, we've raised the stakes on this issue and have been clear that we'll find a bipartisan path forward on any issue when it relates to addressing the affordability crisis. But we were not going to go along to get along in terms of gutting the healthcare of the American people. And public sentiment, as Abraham Lincoln once said, is everything. With it, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. And we were able to work with the people across the country who rose up and made clear this is something that Congress needed to get done. And in partnership with 17 House Republicans who joined us, we made progress where people thought it was otherwise impossible.

CHRIS HAYES: Just quickly to follow up on this. So where does this, I mean, is this DOA in the Senate? Is there the possibility of this actually happening in the Senate? What's your understanding of what happens now?

LEADER JEFFRIES: It's definitively not dead on arrival in the Senate. Leader Schumer, and every single Senate Democrat, supports our legislation, a clean three-year, straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits. In fact, in December, a majority of Senators, every single Senate Democrat and four Senate Republicans, supported this legislation. Meaning, there's a majority that exists in the Senate right now. And we're demanding that John Thune bring it to a vote next week. No more procedural games, no more obstacles that are erected when we know that a majority of the Senators support legislation which is supported by the overwhelming majority of the American people.

CHRIS HAYES: You are obviously in the minority in the House, but it's a very narrow minority right now. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Marjorie Taylor Greene's departure, outright departure from Congress, the sad and premature passing of a Republican Member of Congress at the age of 65 and another Member who I believe is incapacitated in the hospital right now means that it's an operational one-vote majority, I believe, if i'm not mistaken?

LEADER JEFFRIES: That's right. We're basically looking at 217 Republicans and 213 Democrats. At the end of the month, we think we'll be at 218 Republicans and 214 Democrats. I think what was missed from the very beginning of this Congress, Chris, was the fact that though it was a very disappointing election in 2024 and there are a lot of lessons to be learned, many of which we've already applied, which is why we decisively won victories across the country, including in Virginia, in New Jersey and California in November of 2025, but I think that we overperformed the national political environment, and the House was already very narrow. Republicans, to start the Congress, only had a three-seat majority, which is why they're trying to gerrymandered maps all across the country. By the way, we're pushing back against them aggressively, stopping them from implementing their scheme. And so, this is the smallest majority at this point that any party has had since the Great Depression. And we're going to continue to stay on the case. We're going to continue to push back against Donald Trump and his extremism that's being unleashed on the American people as we've horrifically seen in Minnesota. And we're going to fight to lower the high cost of living, fix our broken healthcare system and address the corruption that is happening from this administration in real time.

CHRIS HAYES: In the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, lots of responses from Members of your Caucus, local elected representatives, one of the things I've seen from Members of the Democratic Caucus are calls to impeach Kristi Noem, not just for her stewardship of the department, but specifically the fact that she went out to the country and essentially lied, slandered a woman who had just been killed, a mother of three. There are efforts to impeach Kristi Noem. Are you open to those efforts? Do you support impeachment of Kristi Noem?

LEADER JEFFRIES: Yeah, we haven't ruled anything in or anything out in terms of the proper way to bring about accountability. But what I can say, and we'll have a conversation among some Caucus Members on this tomorrow-I don't want to get out ahead of it-and then we'll reconvene early next week. But what's clear to me is Kristi Noem is deeply unqualified, deeply unserious and deeply dangerous. She's a complete and total disgrace. She should never have been confirmed by the Senate in terms of holding this position. She lied to the American people, as she's been doing repeatedly, but in this instance, slandered a 37-year-old American citizen whose life was taken without justification by an ICE agent who showed depraved indifference to human life. That agent should be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law. And simultaneously, in Congress, we need to decisively respond, and we will. And that'll be led, of course, by Robert Garcia, who leads our efforts on the Oversight Committee, Bennie Thompson, who leads our efforts on the Homeland Security Committee and Jamie Raskin, who leads our effort on Judiciary.

CHRIS HAYES: Final question for you. This is something that Senator Chris Murphy said. 'Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn't restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.' Do you agree with that?

LEADER JEFFRIES: I agree that we need congressional restraint to limit or address decisively the lawlessness that the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed on the American people, and we should explore every opportunity in terms of getting to that place. That's legislative, and that's dealing with some of the bills that are going to be before us over the next couple of weeks. Look, we've made clear, Chris, that we don't go along to get along as House Democrats. That's why we delivered this big victory for the American people. And Senate Democrats also delivered a big victory in terms of the authorization to use military force resolution passing. And we just have to continue to stay on the case on all of these things in order to begin the process of decisively ending this national nightmare in the United States.

CHRIS HAYES: We will be talking to some Senators about precisely that War Powers Resolution, which did get Republican votes today and did pass on a day when Donald Trump's Republicans lost a bunch of votes, both in the House and the Senate. It was a really interesting day beneath the awful tragedy that's been unfolding in Minneapolis. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, thank you very much.

LEADER JEFFRIES: Thank you.

Interview can be watched here.

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