House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attacked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday, calling her “sick” and “out of control.”

Jeffries bizarrely kicked off his press conference by asserting it was Day 17 of the “Trump-Republican shutdown,” despite the fact that Republicans passed a clean continuing resolution (CR), which Democrats have rejected multiple times. It should be noted Democrats supported the extension of funding in the past under the Biden administration.

Ignoring the fact that it was Democrats, not Republicans, who offered a partisan spending bill, Jeffries said:

So House and Senate Democrats are going to continue to hold firm as it relates to a basic commonsense position that when we enact spending bills, we should be helping the American people, no

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