House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Republicans are threatening a Trump-inspired government shutdown to “impose Trump's Project 2025 on...
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Republicans are threatening a Trump-inspired government shutdown to “impose Trump's Project 2025 on the American people.” In his weekly press conference on Thursday (9/12), Jeffries told reporters, “Once again, we are at a crossroads. The MAGA Republicans want to shut down the government. They are determined to cram Trump's 2025 plan onto the American people and impose extreme cuts.” Jeffries said Democrats would reject a short-term spending bill that includes Trump provisions or delays the 2025 spending bill until next year. He added that he called on Republicans to partner with Democrats to reach common ground and avoid a Trump-inspired government shutdown. He noted that Republican leaders in both the House and Senate have supported the legislation reached through the Bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act — a spending framework — that sets government spending levels for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. He claimed Republicans walked away from the deal. Lawmakers are hoping to prevent a government shutdown weeks before Americans go to the polls. “The only way to avoid that is to get the fiscal 2025 budget done this calendar year,” Jeffries said. He also discussed efforts to prevent riots like the Jan. 6, 2021, …
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Republicans are threatening a Trump-inspired government shutdown to “impose Trump's Project 2025 on...
House Republicans plowed ahead Tuesday with a short-term government funding package that one leading Democratic lawmaker denounced as "a ploy to force...
House Republicans plowed ahead Tuesday with a short-term government funding package that one leading Democratic lawmaker denounced as "a ploy to force...
Donald Trump's insistence on attaching a voter identification law onto a House funding bill is putting speaker Mike Johnson – and the Republican...
Donald Trump's insistence on attaching a voter identification law onto a House funding bill is putting speaker Mike Johnson – and the Republican...
Leading U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday accused House Republicans of "wasting precious time catering to the hard MAGA right" as House Speaker Mike...
Leading U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday accused House Republicans of "wasting precious time catering to the hard MAGA right" as House Speaker Mike...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a big plan to pass a spending bill that included a massive GOP priority: a provision gutting the National Voter...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a big plan to pass a spending bill that included a massive GOP priority: a provision gutting the National Voter...
It's now 49 days until the November election and the Republican-led Congress is facing another major deadline. If there's no continuing resolution or...