Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-02T00:20:23.645Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #71634)
Resolved official: Hakeem Jeffries (entity #1129)
Ingest result: 25 facts · 25 sources · 1 silences · 1 contradictions · 7 voting_records · 3 skipped
Single super-prompt covering every per-official research area in one LLM call: donor mapping, silences, contradictions, telling votes, and constituency baseline. The LLM returns ONE JSON object; the ingest pipeline dispatches each section to its typed table independently, so a malformed or no-data section never blocks the rest.
{ "target_official": { "name": "Hakeem S. Jeffries", "bioguide_id": "J000294" }, "donor_mapping": { "facts": [ { "fact_text": "Jeffries' principal campaign committee raised $22,977,197.34 in total receipts during the 2023–2024 election cycle, with $15,936,793.65 from individual contributions and $2,639,351.00 from PAC and other committee contributions.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2NY10092/?cycle=2024&election_full=true" }, { "fact_text": "Over his career (2011–2024), Jeffries raised $38,431,874 and spent $33,477,468, with top industries being Retired ($4,280,524), Securities & Investment ($3,000,052), Lawyers/Law Firms ($2,415,202), Real Estate ($1,967,258), and Pro-Israel ($1,742,105).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/hakeem-jeffries/summary?cid=N00033640&cycle=CAREER" }, { "fact_text": "Jeffries' top contributor by far is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has directed $933,415 to his campaigns over his career ($919,215 individual + $14,200 PAC), with more than $900,000 raised for him by AIPAC according to OpenSecrets News.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/04/democratic-leadership-profile-hakeem-jeffries" }, { "fact_text": "Jeffries' personal financial disclosure for 2018 showed a net worth between $452,024 and $1,230,000, with a midpoint substantially lower than the House median.", "date_occurred": "2018-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/hakeem-jeffries/summary?cid=N00033640" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "American Israel Public Affairs Cmte", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "Career (2011–2024): $933,415 total ($919,215 individual + $14,200 PAC). Jeffries' single largest career donor, comprising the largest share of any organizational contributor. 2023–2024 cycle: $866,425 reported by OpenSecrets.", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/hakeem-jeffries/summary?cid=N00033640&cycle=CAREER" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Paul, Weiss et al", "relationship_type": "donor", "description": "Career: $316,150 in individual contributions. Law firm where Jeffries worked before entering politics.", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/hakeem-jeffries/summary?cid=N00033640&cycle=CAREER" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Apollo Global Management", "relationship_type": "donor", "description": "Career: $198,089 total ($197,089 individual + $1,000 PAC). Among the world's largest private equity firms.", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/hakeem-jeffries/summary?cid=N00033640&cycle=CAREER" } ] }, "silences": [ { "topic": "Endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, democratic socialist who won the NYC mayoral Democratic primary with 56% of the vote, including Jeffries' own NY-08 district", "expected_position": "As House Democratic Leader, the senior-most Democrat representing Brooklyn, and the congressional representative for a district that voted decisively for Mamdani, Jeffries would be expected to endorse the party's nominee or at minimum explain his reservation publicly.", "window_start": "2025-06-24", "window_end": "2025-10-23", "evidence_summary": "Jeffries repeatedly sidestepped and ducked questions about whether he supported Mamdani. During an August 14, 2025 CNBC Squawk Box interview, he expressed 'notable frustration' when pressed. He did not endorse until October 24, 2025 — four months after the primary — and only 'grudgingly' according to Talking Points Memo. During the same window, Jeffries was publicly active on redistricting strategy and Supreme Court rulings.", "primary_url": "https://www.nypost.com/2025/10/19/us-news/house-dem-leader-hakeem-jeffries-has-awkward-pause-when-asked-about-not-endorsing-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-race/" } ], "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Hakeem Jeffries has consistently and publicly supported a ban on congressional stock trading. In May 2025, Jeffries reiterated his 'long support' for a ban, stating at a news conference: 'I have long supported a ban on congressional stock trading.' He endorsed bipartisan negotiations led by Rep. Seth Magaziner.", "claim_date": "2025-05-09", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://punchbowl.news/2025/05/09/bipartisan-group-eyes-stock-trading-ban/" }, { "claim_text": "In December 2025, Jeffries and his leadership team actively discouraged House Democrats from signing a bipartisan discharge petition (filed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-FL) that would have forced a floor vote on a stock trading ban. Jeffries' team instead launched a competing partisan discharge petition that extended the ban to the president and vice president — a provision guaranteed to lose all Republican support, effectively killing the bipartisan effort. Government watchdog Project on Government Oversight called it 'an attempt to undermine and kill off the only bipartisan legislative vehicle that is gaining momentum. It's really bad faith all around.'", "claim_date": "2025-12-19", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://prospect.org/2025/12/19/jeffries-undercuts-congressional-stock-trading-ban/" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "platform_vs_vote", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Jeffries publicly championed a congressional stock trading ban while his leadership team simultaneously worked to undermine a bipartisan discharge petition that had enough Republican signatories to force a floor vote — instead launching a competing partisan bill designed to fail. Watchdog groups characterized this as a 'bad faith' maneuver to 'kill off' the only viable vehicle for the ban he claimed to support." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.R.3746", "title": "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling suspension with SNAP work requirements and discretionary spending caps)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2023-05-31", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023243", "why_it_matters": "Jeffries led Democrats in supporting the bill 'without hesitation, reservation, or trepidation,' delivering the votes needed for passage. However, his NY-08 district has a 20.8% poverty rate and 35.1% Medicaid coverage — meaning the bill's SNAP work requirements and spending caps disproportionately affected his own constituents. Forty-six progressive Democrats voted against it.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.8034", "title": "Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($26.4 billion in military aid to Israel)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024152", "why_it_matters": "Jeffries voted for the Israel aid package that his top career donor AIPAC ($933,415) strongly supported. Thirty-seven progressive Democrats voted against it over concerns about offensive weapons used in Gaza. Jeffries, as Democratic Leader, helped marshal the votes for passage while protesters at his Harvard book talk later chanted about the '$860,000 from AIPAC' and '15,000 children are dead.'", "category": "donor_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.Res.845", "title": "Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for comments on the Israel-Hamas war", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2023-11-07", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023622", "why_it_matters": "Jeffries was one of only 22 House Democrats (out of 206 voting) to vote to censure Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress. He said Tlaib's use of the phrase 'from the river to the sea' was 'widely understood as calling for the complete destruction of Israel' and 'unacceptably risks further polarization.' The vote put him at sharp odds with 184 members of his own caucus.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "S.5", "title": "Laken Riley Act (requiring mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants charged with certain crimes)", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-01-22", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5", "why_it_matters": "Jeffries voted against the bill while 46 House Democrats joined all Republicans in support. His Brooklyn-anchored district is 36% foreign-born with a 16.2% Hispanic population, making immigration enforcement a high-salience constituent issue. His vote aligned with immigrant-rights advocates in his majority-minority district.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Trump domestic policy package — extending 2017 tax cuts, restructuring Medicaid and SNAP)", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1", "why_it_matters": "Jeffries delivered a record-breaking 8-hour-44-minute floor speech opposing the bill, calling it devastating to working families. His district's 20.8% poverty rate and 35.1% Medicaid coverage rate meant his constituents had high material stakes in the bill's proposed program cuts. The AFL-CIO scored this as a key vote for working people.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.7217", "title": "Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 (standalone $17.6 billion Israel-only aid bill, February 2024)", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2024-02-06", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024038", "why_it_matters": "Jeffries opposed a standalone Israel aid bill that his top donor AIPAC supported, calling it a 'cynical political ploy' by Republicans and insisting aid must be tied to Ukraine funding. This put him temporarily at odds with his largest donor while strategically holding out for the comprehensive package that passed in April 2024.", "category": "donor_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.8035", "title": "Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151", "why_it_matters": "Jeffries played a pivotal role in pressuring Speaker Johnson to bring Ukraine aid to a vote, then delivered 210 Democratic votes. While 112 Republicans opposed the bill, Jeffries' leadership was credited by allies as making the difference. The vote reflected his consistent internationalist stance that sometimes puts him at odds with both the progressive anti-war left and the MAGA right.", "category": "cross_pressure" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "New York's 8th Congressional District encompasses central and southern Brooklyn, including Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie, and parts of Coney Island and Brighton Beach. It is a majority-minority district with a population of approximately 759,000. Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) residents form the largest group at 41.4%, followed by White (Non-Hispanic) at 27.4%, Hispanic at 16.2%, and Asian (Non-Hispanic) at 8.2%. The district is heavily immigrant: 36% of residents were born outside the United States, and 39.8% of households speak a non-English language at home. The median household income is $66,089, the poverty rate is 20.8%, and the homeownership rate is just 32.2% with a median property value of $787,100. It is a D+51 district — one of the safest Democratic seats in the country — anchored by health care, education, and professional services employment.", "top_employers": [ { "name": "Health Care & Social Assistance (sector-wide, including NYC Health + Hospitals, SUNY Downstate, Maimonides Medical Center, and Brookdale Hospital)", "employees": 78388, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" }, { "name": "Educational Services (sector-wide, including NYC Department of Education, CUNY Brooklyn College, and Medgar Evers College)", "employees": 31464, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" }, { "name": "Professional, Scientific & Technical Services (sector-wide)", "employees": 29635, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" } ], "dominant_industries": [ { "naics": "62", "share": 0.236, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" }, { "naics": "61", "share": 0.095, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" }, { "naics": "54", "share": 0.089, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" } ], "recent_ballot_measures": [ { "name": "New York Proposal 1 (November 2024) — Equal Rights Amendment (enshrining abortion rights and anti-discrimination protections in the state constitution)", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "62%–38%", "source_url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/nyregion/new-york-equal-rights-amendment-prop-1.html" } ], "demographic_anchors": [ { "label": "Median household income", "value": "$66,089", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" }, { "label": "Poverty rate", "value": "20.8%", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" }, { "label": "Foreign-born population", "value": "36%", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" }, { "label": "Homeownership rate", "value": "32.2%", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-8-ny" } ] } } }