House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is challenging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to a debate on the government shutdown, despite the fact that the Speaker successfully passed a clean continuing resolution (CR) which Democrats rejected.
According to Senior Congressional Correspondent for Fox News Chad Pergram, Jeffries openly challenged Johnson to a debate on the House floor over the shutdown, asserting that Democrats have been “clear and consistent in our position” that there must be “bipartisan” negotiations to reach what he described as an “enlightened spending agreement that reopens the government, improves the lives of hardworking American taxpayers, and addresses the Republican healthcare crisis” — completely ignoring that the GOP put forth a clean CR that keeps things the same, simply extending Biden-era policies in spending.
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