On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) argued that Democrats aren’t abandoning their position from prior shutdowns of arguing to just fund the government because “we’re saying, let’s fund the government, let’s sit down and have a conversation. Republicans have adopted a my way or the highway approach” and Republicans are “suggesting now that continuing that funding level is something that we should just accept and allow it to be jammed down the throats of the American people, when we voted against it in March because it hurt the American people.”

Jeffries began by saying, “Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the presidency. And we’ve indicated that we will sit down with anyone, anytime, any place to try to find a path forwar

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