House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will reject any short-term spending bill that includes Trump-backed policy provisions or kicks the issue of 2025 spending into next year.

Jeffries noted that Republican leaders in both chambers have already backed legislation, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), that set government spending levels for both fiscal 2024 and 2025. He’s accusing Republicans of walking away from that deal at the risk of a government shutdown.

“What's the problem? We've already reached an agreement,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “So it should not be that complicated, and we need to get it resolved in this calendar year.”

Behind Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House GOP leaders had pushed a stopgap spending package, known as a continuing resolution (CR), that would extend 2024 spending until March 28 — a six-month span demanded by some conservatives in the House GOP conference. The legislation also featured a policy........

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