House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will not help advance bipartisan spending bills on the floor, signaling that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will have to wrangle his restive conference to open debate on legislation to avert a government shutdown.
The vow from Jeffries comes as members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are openly discussing opposing procedural votes on appropriations bills unless their demands for spending cuts are answered.
“Extreme MAGA Republicans temporarily hold the gavels; the extreme MAGA Republicans are responsible for passing the rule,” Jeffries told reporters when asked if Democrats are willing to support a GOP rule — a procedural measure to set up consideration of a bill — for a bipartisan, Senate-negotiated continuing resolution or appropriations bill.
Moderate Republicans had a choice: Ally with moderate Democrats, or ally with insurrection-loving, Trump-worshipping fascists. They choose the latter.
All moderate republicans have been purged from the party. There are republican extremists and maga fascists left. And they are only feuding because theyre out of power. Next republican president they all fall in line with the fascists.