House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will not help advance bipartisan spending bills on the floor, signaling that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will have to wrangle his restive conference to open debate on legislation to avert a government shutdown.
The vow from Jeffries comes as members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are openly discussing opposing procedural votes on appropriations bills unless their demands for spending cuts are answered.
“Extreme MAGA Republicans temporarily hold the gavels; the extreme MAGA Republicans are responsible for passing the rule,” Jeffries told reporters when asked if Democrats are willing to support a GOP rule — a procedural measure to set up consideration of a bill — for a bipartisan, Senate-negotiated continuing resolution or appropriations bill.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will not help advance bipartisan spending bills on the floor, signaling that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will have to wrangle his restive conference to open debate on legislation to avert a government shutdown.
The vow from Jeffries comes as members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are openly discussing opposing procedural votes on appropriations bills unless their demands for spending cuts are answered.
House Republicans are engaged in a bitter battle over government funding, with leadership trying to keep Washington’s lights on past Sept. 30 — the shutdown deadline — and conservatives pushing for steeper spending cuts.
On Wednesday, House GOP leadership was forced to punt a procedural vote on legislation to fund the Pentagon after conservatives vowed to oppose the rule on the floor over demands for greater spending cuts.
Jeffries’s comments Thursday reject any possibility that Democrats will help Republicans begin debate on appropriations bill or a continuing resolution, even if it is bipartisan and negotiated in the Senate — which is what liberals did during the showdown over the debt limit.
In June, conservatives shut down action on the House floor after voting against a rule governing debate on a handful of bills as a result of their frustrations over the debt limit deal.
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Moderate Republicans had a choice: Ally with moderate Democrats, or ally with insurrection-loving, Trump-worshipping fascists. They choose the latter.
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