Reporter on Speaker Johnson (R): “Is this new guy, same problem?” Minority Leader Jeffries (D): “Remains to be seen.”

As new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana known for questioning Joe Biden’s legitimacy as president and opposing gay rights, his Democrat counterpart, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, spoke to the press about his expectations of their relationship.

“I'm sure we'll understand that we will agree to disagree with each other, but without being personally disagreeable,” he said. But he insisted the Democrats would continue to push back against “extremism as it relates to the attacks on the LGBTQ community, extremism as it relates to trying to undermine a woman's freedom to make her own reproductive health care decisions, extremism as it relates to trying to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it,” and “extremism as it relates to our very democracy and the efforts that have been undertaken in the past to halt the peaceful transfer of power.”

When asked by a reporter if this would be "a case of “new guy, same problem,” Jeffries paused for a second before replying it “remains to be seen.”