House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump’s hands-off approach to the congressional budget impasse has prevented any deal to end the shutdown.

Jeffries urged Trump to dive more aggressively into the spending debate, warning that otherwise the government will never reopen.

"Donald Trump definitively needs to get involved,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.

“He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the golf course, and actually decide to end this shutdown that he's created.”

Jeffries has been in Washington almost every day throughout the shutdown, urging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bring the chamber back to Capitol Hill to launch talks on a bipartisan spending agreement that can pass through both chambers. Without those negotiations

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