House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is struggling to find his footing in a Republican-controlled Washington, D.C., amid frustration within the Democratic Party that he’s not delivering Pelosi-style resistance to the Trump administration.

As President Donald Trump began his first term eight years ago, then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., led an organized column of resistance against the new Republican commander in chief.

Since Trump won his second White House term, however, things on Capitol Hill have radically changed for House Democrats, especially for Jeffries, who has succeeded Pelosi as the Democrats’ leader in the lower chamber.

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