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BumRushDaShow

(160,762 posts) Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:17 PM 18 hrs ago

Jeffries says he's 'hopeful' a government shutdown can be avoided

Source: ABC News

September 28, 2025, 11:28 AM

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday he is "hopeful" a government shutdown can be avoided as Congress lurches toward its Tuesday deadline to reach a spending agreement.

Jeffries' comments come after President Donald Trump canceled a meeting last week with Jeffries and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to hammer out a deal before saying Saturday he'd meet with the Democrats and Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday.

"Our view going into the meeting is that we want to find bipartisan common ground, to find a spending agreement that avoids a government shutdown and actually meets the needs of the American people in terms of their health, their safety, and their economic well-being," Jeffries told "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz.

One of the main points of contention between Democrats and Republicans has been the impending expiration of some of the Affordable Care Act's tax credits, which Democrats are fighting to extend.

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Jeffries says he's 'hopeful' a government shutdown can be avoided (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago OP

Wonder if... bunny planet 17 hrs ago #1

Trump is going to claim he fixed it. The gop spineless will agree. C Moon 17 hrs ago #2

Better talking points pat_k 14 hrs ago #3

bunny planet

(10,882 posts)

1. Wonder if...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:16 PM

17 hrs ago

Wonder if trump will try to trade extending the ACA tax credits for the Dems promise to drop the request for the unredacted Epstein files….who would put it past him, he seems pretty desperate to avoid their release. We should ask for a lot more concessions while we’re at it (withdrawal of troops illegally put in place domestically, rescinding Medicaid cuts you name it) and then once our new Congress person is number 218 and sworn in, hold a press conference and insist they bring it to the floor of the house for a vote anyway, request their release anyway, that’s what they would do. Schumer and Jeffries seem incapable of playing this kind of hard ball however.

C Moon

(13,210 posts)

2. Trump is going to claim he fixed it. The gop spineless will agree.

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:28 PM

17 hrs ago

pat_k

(11,888 posts)

3. Better talking points

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:20 PM

14 hrs ago

Republicans want to cut your healthcare so badly, they'll shut down the government to do it.

It's about refusing to be accomplices in the biggest cuts to Medicaid in U.S. history.

It's about refusing to be accomplices to increasing healthcare premiums for 75 million Americans by an average of 75%.

It's about refusing to be accomplices to the Republican Congress's cowardly refusal to DO THEIR DUTY and demand that Trump stop breaking his oath of office and start carrying out the laws passed by Congress NOW.

More talking points:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220675016

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