Hakeem S. Jeffries

Democrat · NY-8 · U.S. House

Bio

Hakeem Sekou Jeffries is an American politician and attorney serving since 2013 as the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district. From 2007 to 2012, he represented the 57th district in the New York State Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party, Jeffries has served since 2023 as the leader of the House Democratic Caucus and House minority leader.

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Record of service

In office: 13.6 years
First took office: 2013 (7 terms)
Seniority: 111 of 437 by time served
Age: 56

Leadership

House Democratic Caucus Chair · 2019–2023
House Minority Leader · 2023–present

District offices

Brooklyn, NY · 718-373-0033
Brooklyn, NY · 718-237-2211

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

−$238k

2020

−$163k

2021

−$210k

2022

−$20k

2023

−$70k

2024

−$241k

2025

−$127k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $340k – $1.1M
Liabilities: $515k – $1.2M
Net worth: −$840k – $586k
Since 2019: +$112k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 33 assets reported

ABC's of Democracy$50k – $100k

HSBC Accounts$50k – $100k

Northwestern Mutual Whole Life Insurance Policy$50k – $100k

Merrill Edge Investment Account-Non Retirement ⇒ SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (SDY)$50k – $100k

Island Federal Credit Union Account$15k – $50k

Northwestern Mutual Whole Life Insurance Policy$15k – $50k

HSBC Brokerage Account ⇒ Lord Abbett Inv Tr, Lord Abbett Floating Rate Fd -- Cl C (LARCX)$15k – $50k

Lutheran Medical Center 401K ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund (VTTHX)$15k – $50k

Merrill Edge Investment Account-Non Retirement ⇒ ProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristoc$15k – $50k

Merrill Edge Investment Account-Non Retirement ⇒ Vanguard Real Estate ETF (VNQ)$15k – $50k

Principal Trust Company 401K ⇒ BlackRock Lifepath Index Fund 2035 K Fund$15k – $50k

Bank of America$1k – $15k

Bank of America Accounts$1k – $15k

Empower - Legal Services 403b Plan ⇒ EuroPacific Growth Fund Cl R-6 (RERGX)$1k – $15k

Empower - Legal Services 403b Plan ⇒ Fidelity Large Cap Growth Index Fund (FSPGX)$1k – $15k

Empower - Legal Services 403b Plan ⇒ Fidelity Total Bond K6 Fund (FTKFX)$1k – $15k

Empower - Legal Services 403b Plan ⇒ Guaranteed Income Fund$1k – $15k

Empower - Legal Services 403b Plan ⇒ Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund - N Shares (JDMNX)$1k – $15k

Empower - Legal Services 403b Plan ⇒ MFS Mid Cap Value Fund Class R6 (MVCKX)$1k – $15k

Empower - Legal Services 403b Plan ⇒ Vanguard Equity Income Fund Admiral Shares (VEIRX)$1k – $15k

HSBC Brokerage Account ⇒ Lord Abbett Inv Tr, Lord Abbett Floating Rate Fd - Cl A (LFRAX)$1k – $15k

Lutheran Medical Center 401K ⇒ Vanguard Total Bond Market Insti Plus Shares (VBMPX)$1k – $15k

Merrill Edge Guided Investing Traditional IRA ⇒ iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF (IUSG)$1k – $15k

Merrill Edge Guided Investing Traditional IRA ⇒ iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF (IUSV)$1k – $15k

Merrill Edge Guided Investing Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA)$1k – $15k

Merrill Edge Guided Investing Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)$1k – $15k

Merrill Edge Guided Investing Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF (VTWO)$1k – $15k

Merrill Edge Investment Account-Non Retirement - CMA ⇒ Merrill Lynch Direct Deposit Progra$1k – $15k

Vanguard Brokerage (DC 2) ⇒ Vanguard 500 Index Fd Admiral Shs (VFIAX)$1k – $15k

Vanguard Brokerage (DC 2) ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$1 – $1k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.64

Healthcare

D+0.79

Immigration & Border

D+0.86

Guns

D+0.95

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.88

Crime & Policing

D+0.47

Defense & Veterans

D+0.20

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.26

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.75

Government & Democracy

D+0.82

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Hakeem S. Jeffries's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

94%Closest

Green Party

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

86%

Communist Party USA

85%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

30%

On the political map

Hakeem S. Jeffries (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Jeffriessits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Jeffries's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.