Top House Democrats have privately coalesced around a strategy in this month’s high stakes government funding fight: A public battle with President Donald Trump to extract health care wins, even if it means a government shutdown.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries plans to formally articulate their stance to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Wednesday evening when the two New Yorkers and their leadership teams meet to discuss the looming deadline. Jeffries sees this as a critical moment for Democrats to seize attention from Trump and demonstrate their party’s values to a frustrated American public, according to multiple people familiar with his thinking.

But it’s not yet clear if Jeffries and House Democrats’ can sell their hardline views across the Capitol, even as many in the p

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