House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that public pressure will force Republicans back to the negotiating table in search of a bipartisan deal to reopen the government.

Asked at the Capitol why he thinks President Trump will change course and enter talks over the health care provisions Democrats are demanding, Jeffries didn’t hesitate for a moment.

“Public sentiment,” he told reporters on the Capitol steps. “The American people are paying close attention, and they know that it was Donald Trump and Republicans who have shut the government down.”

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has rejected that premise. He and other Republican leaders think they’ll win the fight for public sentiment because their bill — which would extend government funding through Nov. 21 — maintains

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