"I haven't had a single member of the House Democratic Caucus talk to me about impeachment," Jeffries claimed. "We've been relentlessly focused on affordability and on accountability because the House is a separate and co-equal branch of government."

Jeffries, who is expected to be elected House Speaker in the next session of Congress, said impeaching Trump does not rank among his priorities, even though he used "accountability" in the same statement along with "affordability."

Despite the contradiction, he made the same case during an appearance on MSNOW's Morning Joe, where he outlined his agenda for the incoming House.

"The American people don't want us to get even," Jeffries claimed on Morning Joe. "They want us to get things done on their behalf because life is way too expensive. We ran on affordability. We won on affordability. And now it's our job to govern on affordability."

Jeffries insisted Democrats had campaigned on lowering prices for groceries, gas, housing, and health care.

"As a matter of fact, we made clear that we're fighting for an affordable America and explicitly promised the American people that we would fight hard to lower the high costs of groceries and gas and housing, and that we were gonna fight hard to make sure that healthcare was affordable for every single American, and that hardworking American taxpayers who are working hard and playing by the rules, they should be able to live an affordable life," he said. "That's our mission, that's our responsibility, and we're gonna work hard to make that happen."

However, there's reason to be skeptical of his claims. When asked about impeachment before the election, Jeffries said Democrats "haven't ruled anything in, and we haven't ruled anything out." Other Democrats have spent months pledging a wave of investigations once the party regained power, and several have said Trump already meets the threshold for removal. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has repeatedly claimed Trump has committed numerous impeachable offenses during his second term.

Raskin led the second impeachment of Trump in 2021, after the January 6 Capitol riot. The Senate acquitted Trump in that trial, as it did in the first impeachment in 2020.

Further undermining Jeffries' claim that Democrats aren't interested in impeachment or revenge, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a statement after the party secured its majority, vowing to "take on the Trump Crime Family, corporate corruption, DHS and ICE abuses, and the cover-up of the Epstein files."