House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said he’s ready to publicly debate Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as the government remains closed due to a lack of funding and partisan gridlock in Congress.
“I look forward to that,” Jeffries told reporters on Tuesday. “We’re going to try to get it scheduled, absolutely.”
According to The Hill, Johnson had declined an earlier debate challenge from Jeffries, saying the time to debate the Republican-backed stopgap funding bill had passed.
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