House Democratic leaders are holding firm in opposition to the Republicans’ spending bill, brushing aside new threats from the Trump administration to use the shutdown to advance mass firings of federal workers and drastic cuts to programs Democrats hold dear.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said the threats — aired on Wednesday by Trump’s budget chief, Russell Vought — are merely a continuation of the president’s efforts to gut the federal government, which began the day he was sworn in.

With that in mind, Jeffries warned that Democrats won’t cave to GOP demands to support the current spending bill, since they don’t view a new round of layoffs or cuts to federal programs as unique to the shutdown.

"These are all things that the Trump administration has been doing since J

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