The DSA co-chair told Fox News the plan is open borders, no ICE, no prisons, no Senate.
Hakeem Jeffries just confirmed those people will sit in his caucus.
Jeffries used two words on Meet the Press that should end his shot at the Speakership.
Jeffries Drops the Mask on National Television
Host Kristen Welker asked him point blank: "Do Democratic Socialists belong in the Democratic Party?"
Jeffries refused to say no.
Instead, he offered a carefully constructed non-answer – one that said "I don't support the DSA agenda" while simultaneously confirming that DSA members who win Democrat primaries "will be part of the House Democratic caucus."
His exact words: "It's going to be a broad caucus."
That is not a denial.
That is an invitation.
For context, the DSA agenda Jeffries claims not to support includes abolishing ICE, open borders with mass amnesty for every illegal immigrant in the country, defunding and eventually abolishing the police, eliminating prisons, and scrapping the United States Senate entirely.
DSA co-chair Megan Romer confirmed every single item on that list on Fox News Sunday last month.
Shannon Bream asked if the DSA platform included abolishing all borders and giving amnesty to anyone here illegally.
Romer's answer: "As a long term plan, yup."
And Jeffries just told America those are his future caucus members.
This Is Not a Fringe Anymore
Here is what has happened to the Democrat Party in 2026 while most Americans weren't watching.
DSA membership exploded from 6,000 in 2015 to over 100,000 today.
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/2089085527500693645?s=20
Eleven DSA-backed candidates are running for House seats this cycle.
In New York, DSA candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated a five-term incumbent in the Democratic primary.
In Colorado, 29-year-old DSA candidate Melat Kiros knocked off 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette – a woman who had served in Congress since 1997.
Avila Chevalier's social media history includes posts calling for the abolition of police, prisons, ICE, and America's borders, along with profane attacks on Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
Jeffries congratulated her.
At Claire Valdez's primary victory party in New York, DSA supporters chanted "you're next" when Jeffries' face appeared on a television screen.
Some of those same winners have already refused to commit to voting for Jeffries as Speaker.
He still won't draw a line.
The Playbook Is Exactly What You Think It Is
Jeffries is trying to thread an impossible needle.
He cannot afford to alienate DSA members, because he needs their votes for the Speakership.
He cannot afford to endorse the DSA agenda, because the word socialist is still toxic with the voters he needs in November.
So he does what Democrats always do: he says the quiet part quietly, hoping you don't notice.
"I don't support the DSA agenda" in the same breath as "will be part of the House Democratic caucus."
That is how you get a Speaker who publicly opposes abolishing the police but privately needs the votes of people who want to abolish the police.
House Speaker Mike Johnson called Jeffries' earlier endorsement of DSA-backed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani "a seismic shift in politics" and said the radical insurgent movement inside the Democrat Party is succeeding.
Steve Scalise said Jeffries had gone "full bore into socialism."
They are right.
Jeffries had every opportunity Sunday to say no.
The word he chose instead was "broad."
That is the most honest thing he has said all year.
Sources:
- Pam Key, "Jeffries: Democratic Socialists of America Will Be Part of Our 'Broad Caucus,'" Breitbart, August 16, 2026.
- Scott McClallen, "Democratic Socialists' Co-Chair Admits Platform Includes Open Borders, Amnesty for Illegals," Townhall, July 26, 2026.
- "DSA Candidates Surge on Radical Defund Police Platform," AMAC Newsline, August 11, 2026.
- "7 Ways DSA Plans To Turn America Into A Third-World Country," The Federalist, July 17, 2026.
- "Hakeem Jeffries Faces Democratic Revolt Over Socialist Wins," Heritage Review, July 27, 2026.
- "Hakeem Jeffries's Speaker Ambitions Face Test from Socialist Surge," Washington Examiner, July 8, 2026.
