Happening now, breaking news, marathon speech. Right now, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is delaying the vote on President Trump's mega bill. So far, he's been speaking for five hours and counting.

Plus, stronger than expected jobs report. We're getting a new look this morning at the strength of the U.S. economy, but there are some possible warning signs.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. This is CNN Breaking News.

We begin with the breaking news up on Capitol Hill. House Republicans are having to wait to deliver President Trump the biggest legislative victory of his second term.

The Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, is holding up the vote by speaking for more than five hours already and counting.

And there's no time to limit in this delay, the tactic known as the magic minute rule.

Jeffries is railing against the Medicaid cuts that could leave almost 12 million people here in the United States uninsured under this bill.

And as a result of the lack of health care that will result directly from this one big ugly bill,

people in America will die. Unnecessary deaths. That is outrageous. It's disgusting. That is not what we should be doing here in the United States House of Representatives.

We're covering all the angles this hour. CNN's Kevin Liptack is over at the White House. But let's begin with our congressional correspondent, Lauren Fox.

She's up on Capitol Hill.

So Lauren, where do things stand right now?

Yeah, like you noted, Wolf, Leader Jeffries has now been on the floor for more than five hours.

The record for this so-called magic minute, which can go on as long as the leader wants it to, is about eight and a half hours. That is held by Kevin McCarthy, a former Speaker of the House. So does Jeffreys try to break that record in this process? I think that remains to be seen. Right now, the mood on the floor is members are sort of milling about.

They're a little bit in and out.

On the Republican side, there were about a dozen members.

On the Democratic side, there are a couple dozen members.

It's not a totally full chamber, but obviously as the hours go on and on,

it's filling up a little more in part because members are finally back awake

after staying up late into the morning to pass this key procedural vote that Speaker Johnson

was able to muscle through the House floor in the early hours of the AM.

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