House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries isn’t holding anything back about his feelings on Dr. Mehmet Oz.

During a press conference on Monday amid the ongoing government shutdown, Jeffries, 55, interjected when a reporter began a question about the Affordable Care Act with “Dr Oz said...” referring to the Trump-appointed administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

“Who?” Jeffries quipped amid scattered laughter. “That’s like the most random way to start a question on a serious topic, nobody whose serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously—no one,” Jeffries said.

Then, the Brooklyn lawmaker went even further. “I mean, it’s shocking that the guy was even confirmed. But this is part of the reality that Republicans here in the House and over in the Senate—they’re noth

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