House Democrat leaders are pushing back against the long-term spending bill that Republicans plan to bring up for a vote next week, calling it “not acceptable,” according to multiple reports.
Democrat leadership, led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent a letter to their caucus on Friday framing the GOP bill as a “partisan” effort to “cut funding for healthcare, nutritional assistance and veterans benefits through the end of the current fiscal year,” The Hill reported.
Republican leaders are planning to release the bill Friday or over the weekend in an attempt to give lawmakers at least three days to review it ahead of the vote, Politico reported. March 14 is the government shutdown deadline.
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