On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stated that the government shutdown is “not about leverage. And by the way, if the votes of Democratic senators are required, then, of course, there should be a bipartisan discussion about enacting a spending bill that is designed to actually make life better” but also Democrats will “not support a partisan Republican spending bill” and also “We are not using a government shutdown to extract any concessions. We want to reopen the government immediately.”

Jeffries said, “We haven’t shut the government down. Donald Trump is the president. Republicans control the House and the Senate. And what we’ve repeatedly made clear is that we would not support a partisan Republican spending bill that continu

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