Hakeem Jeffries

That's what should take place, not simply a my way or the highway approach, particularly when they're asking Democrats to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the healthcare of the American people.

That's a Republican talking point, unfortunately, that they are putting into the public domain.

It's not a clean, continuing resolution.

Why isn't it clean?

I'd be happy to explain that.

In March, the Republicans passed a partisan bill in the House that Democrats strongly oppose.

We opposed...

that spending bill because it hurt veterans, hurt children and families, it hurt housing affordability, and it hurt healthcare because of the cuts that were included in it.

There was actually a bipartisan spending agreement that we reached last December

that passed overwhelmingly in the House and in the Senate.

It was signed into law by President Joe Biden, and it had the support of then-president-elect Donald Trump.

That would have been a clean spending agreement that could have been put before the Congress.

Instead, they passed this partisan Republican spending bill in March that we strongly opposed, and now they want us to continue to sign off

on that particular bill that also includes $500 million in cuts to law enforcement grants to support police officers all across the country.

That's just not something, for a variety of reasons, we can support at this particular point in time.

I think that our view, certainly in the House, is that we will evaluate in good faith any bipartisan proposal that is sent over to us from the Senate if it decisively addresses the Republican healthcare crisis with respect to the Affordable Care Act tax credit extensions or any other issues that may be put on the table.

because of the enormity of the attack on the healthcare of the American people that Republicans have waged this year.

It's gotta be meaningful.

It's gotta actually improve the lives of the American people.

But unlike Republicans who have adopted this my way or the highway approach, we are actually willing to sit down and evaluate in good faith anything that could advance the ball here for working class Americans, middle class Americans, and everyday Americans.