House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called on House Republicans to support the Senate’s temporary spending bill as a way to avert a government shutdown Saturday.
“We have a bipartisan bill right now working its way through the United States Senate. It will pass in a strongly bipartisan way,” he said Thursday.
He said President Biden should come to the negotiating table to talk about Republicans’ plans to close the border and keep the government open, not vice versa. The New York Democrat also dangled his caucus’ discharge petition before Republicans as an option to avoid a government shutdown.
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