Jeffries’s plan to use his leverage around the March 14 funding deadline, paired with the rallies congressional Democrats have taken to hosting outside federal agencies like the Department of Education, is aimed at calming down the Democratic base, among which House and Senate Democrats are more unpopular than ever.
"It's been a constant theme of us saying, 'Please call the Republicans,'" said one Virginia Democrat, Don Beyer, in the piece where members trashed groups like MoveOn and Indivisible for urging Democrats to call their congress members.
According to both parties, at issue is the ongoing efforts by DOGE, Elon Musk’s White House advisory council which has gone on a tear across the federal government aimed at shuttering whole agencies and freezing government spending.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday called out his Republican rivals — again — for supposedly walking away from talks with Democrats in both chambers and the Senate GOP.
“At this moment, there is no discussion because the Speaker of the House has apparently ordered House Republican appropriators to walk away from the negotiating table,” said the Democratic leader.
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