House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ripped President Donald Trump on Friday for leaving town to watch golf matches in New York with just four days left to avoid a possible federal government shutdown .

"He doesn't have the time to meet with Democratic leaders to fund the government and address the Republican health care crisis, but Donald Trump, right now, as we speak, is at a golf event," Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Trump left Washington, D.C., on Friday morning for Bethpage, Long Island, to watch matches at the Ryder Cup, a biennial men's golf competition. Trump flew back to Washington on Air Force One on Friday afternoon.

Asked what he sees as an "off-ramp" to an impasse between Republicans and Democrats, Jeffries pointed at the president.

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