Jeffries on Shutdown over ICE: We Won’t Vote for Funding Without Changes, Including Making Churches Off Limits

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) commented on the possibility of a government shutdown over ICE by saying that, among “things that we believe are appropriate in this instance, are demanding be part of any final bill,” would be a requirement that “ICE should not be able to storm houses of worship, hospitals, and schools.”

Co-host Jonathan Lemire asked, “Leader Jeffries, let’s switch gears now and talk about the upcoming government funding bill, whether the government will perhaps even shut down as that deadline approaches. And a thorny issue is funding for the Department of Homeland Security, and, in particular, ICE, in the wake of that fatal shooting in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago. Talk

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