With five days until a government shutdown, Democratic leaders find themselves in a familiar position: whipping against a spending bill.
“House Democrats will not be complicit in the Republican effort to hurt the American people,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Monday.
The legislation — a 99-page measure that makes hundreds of spending adjustments and slashes $8 billion in funding — is a nonstarter for Democrats. They had hoped that months of negotiations would produce a compromise spending package.