U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
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Top House Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries connected Monday challenged Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to a unrecorded nationalist statement astir the government shutdown.
"Given the urgency of the infinitesimal and the Republican refusal to negociate a bipartisan agreement, a statement connected the House Floor volition supply the American radical with the transparency they deserve," Jeffries said successful a missive to Johnson.
"It volition besides springiness you an accidental to explicate your my mode oregon the road attack to shutting the authorities down, erstwhile Democratic votes are needed to resoluteness the impasse that exists," the New York Democrat told the person from Louisiana.
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Jeffries threw down the gauntlet connected the sixth time of the national authorities shutdown, which is dragging connected with nary extremity successful show arsenic Republican and Democratic leaders excavation successful their heels connected opposing backing priorities.
In the letter, Jeffries told Johnson helium is crippled to statement connected the House level "any time this week successful primetime, broadcast unrecorded to the American people."
The House is retired of league this week.
A spokeswoman for Johnson did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for remark connected the letter.
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