Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) slammed Democratic leadership on Tuesday, months after joining the party. “I know I’ve only been a Democrat for three plus months, so if I’m overstepping my bounds here I apologize, but damn…the leadership of my new party just doesn’t f------ understand the threat and isn’t f------ meeting this moment,” Walsh wrote on the social platform X.

Walsh’s comments were in response to a clip of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) discussing his approach to combatting President Trump's agenda as funding negotiations ahead of an Oct. 1 shutdown deadline show little signs of movement. “When Trump was president last time, Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [(D-Calif.)] — and she was speaker, Democrats were in the majority — she seemed to relish going toe-to-toe

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