Democrat Hakeem Jeffries is in line to become the first Black speaker of the US House of Representatives and will lead the majority sworn in the first week of January, after four years of Republican control.

He pledged to pass legislation reversing the spending cuts to Medicaid — a health program for the poor and people with disabilities — enacted into law on July 4, 2025. In his victory speech on Tuesday night, he declared that “today begins the great American comeback”.