Hakeem Jeffries

Democrats have been showing up on Capitol Hill.

We're committed to doing the work, to finding a bipartisan path forward, to reopening the government and to addressing the health care crisis that Republicans have viciously visited on the American people.

I've got a couple questions just about the long-term consequences of this.

So the president said, we're closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we're opposed to, and they're never going to come back in many cases.

Is he right?

Is the work that's being done by OMB and his administration irrevocable?

Well, Republicans have been trying to shut down programs unlawfully from the very beginning of this presidency.

in ways that clearly violate the law because they're inconsistent with bipartisan bills that have been passed dictating how taxpayer dollars are spent in ways that are designed to benefit the American people.

So what we're seeing right now is not inconsistent.

These are just threats.

you know, from Donald Trump trying to intimidate Democrats from backing away from the position that we've taken on behalf of the American people.

This is a principled position for us, not political, it's not partisan.

It's about the quality of life, the health, the safety, and the economic well-being of the American people, and we'll continue to hold this position.

And we're gonna have to, of course, continue to push back against overreach from Donald Trump and his administration.

Unfortunately, the Republicans, who control the House and the Senate, they have complete control of government,

right now in the Congress, they're not functioning like a separate and co-equal branch of government.

They're a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump cartel.

And unfortunately, they continue to recklessly rubber stamp Donald Trump's extreme policies.

We can pour one out for regular order.

We haven't seen that in a long time, but I wonder if what's at risk here is the appropriations process.