House Democratic leaders warned Friday that they won’t back a long-term extension of current funding levels, which GOP leaders are teeing up for a vote next week.

The top Democrats — Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.) and Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (Calif.) — said the Republicans’ bill is a “partisan” effort “that threatens to cut funding for healthcare, nutritional assistance and veterans benefits through the end of the current fiscal year.”

“That is not acceptable,” the Democrats wrote Friday in a letter to fellow House Democrats.

Lawmakers are racing to avert a shutdown before government funding runs out on March 14.

Friday's letter amplifies a similar warning Jeffries had delivered in the Capitol a day........

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