Jeffries warns of ‘five-alarm fire’ on shutdown, looming health care cuts
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Monday that Democrats won’t accept any Republican spending bill that makes life more expensive for working class people, pointing specifically to looming health care cuts as a “five-alarm fire” that must be addressed to win his party’s support for legislation preventing a shutdown.Just hours before he and other top congressional leaders were scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House, Jeffries amplified