Hakeem Jeffries

Are you speaking with one another?

Are Democrats talking to Republicans right now?

The conversations have been very limited, unfortunately, because Donald Trump has not given House Republican leaders or Senate Republican leaders permission to negotiate.

reinforcing the principle from our view that he made the decision to shut the government down.

They want to continue to inflict pain on federal employees.

They've done that from the very beginning of Donald Trump's presidency.

In fact, more than 200,000 federal employees had been forced off the job prior to the government shutdown.

And this is something that we've continued to see them build upon during the shutdown.

Until Donald Trump gets serious about reopening the government, unfortunately, we're going to remain in this situation and everyday Americans are being hurt.

He's getting ready to take a trip to Asia.

Is it appropriate for him to be doing that at this moment when the government is shut down?

I think that the president has a responsibility both domestically and throughout the world.

However, what has been irresponsible is that throughout this shutdown, he's found more time to golf than he has to engage with Democrats on Capitol Hill.

He's decided to try to steal $230 million in taxpayer funds from the Department of Injustice.

Donald Trump and his administration have found $40 billion to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina

and can't find a dime to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits to keep healthcare affordable for tens of millions of Americans.

And on top of all of that, they are demolishing the east wing of the White House in ways that have appropriately horrified

the American people.

I want to ask you about potential off-ramps.

And Tammy Baldwin, the senator from Wisconsin, Democrat, said Trump is the off-ramp at this point.