House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrees (DN.Y.) warned the GOP leaders on Tuesday that House Democrats would only oppose any government spending bill spent by Republican.
Behind the jeepries, House Democrats voted almost unanimously against Republican’s 2025 expenditure expansion, which was prepared without inputs from Democratic regulators. As the Congress is close to the September 30 time limit for the spending of 2026, Jeffrees said that if they get out of the talks, their cocks is ready to keep the line again.
“The ball is in the court of Trump administration and Republican, as if they continue to try to block a biased bill under the neck of American people without working with Democrats in the House or Senate, our situation will be the same that was in March,” he told reporters in the capital on the first day.
“We will not support a biased expenditure bill incurred by Republican that harm Americans everyday.”
Jeffrees stated that he spent with speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) last week, which he had “portrayed as an early conversation … … where possible, the importance of trying to find normal ground.”
“But in that conversation,” he quickly said, “I also clarified that we are not going to support biased financing laws. Period. Full break.”
In March, all but a house Democrats opposed the Republican expenses bill. The law still became a law, however, not only because Johnson was able to muscle it through the lower chamber, where the Republican has a majority, but also because a group of Senate Minority Leaders Charles Shumor (DN.Y.) and a group of liberal democrats supported the package when they reached the upper chamber.
Sholar supportHouse Democrats of all stripesWho pressed the Senate leader to follow his leadership and use a philibuster to sink the GOP bill. This episode has raised questions about how Shumor will bring this month’s debate to the threat of government shutdown, if the Congress fails to get the bill at President Trump’s desk by 1 October.
Shumor issued a letter on Tuesday, which seemed to resonate to the Jeffrees’ warning that Democrats would oppose a partisan Republican bill.
“The only way to avoid a shutdown is to work in a bilateral way, with a bill that can get both Republican and Democratic votes in the Senate,”Shumor wrote“However, as we do the funding deadline, Republicans are threatening to go once again-it is moving towards closing our country.”
Jeffrees stated that House and Senate Democrats “are working together,” and he speaks “regularly” with Shumor.
He stopped saying that House and Senate Democrats are united in strategy to oppose a partial GOP bill.
