House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced Tuesday that Democrats will return to Washington early next week, when the House is formally in recess, to highlight the decision of Republican leaders to cancel the final days of session before a scheduled government shutdown.

“This is the height of irresponsibility and further evidence that Republicans are determined to shut the government down,” Jeffries wrote in a letter to fellow House Democrats. “Democrats will be in town and prepared to get the job done.”

Jeffries is also hammering President Trump ahead of next week’s shutdown deadline, saying the president “chickened out” for

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