House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is sending a warning to Republicans that next year’s spending bills must have Democratic buy-in, or the government will likely shut down.

“It's my expectation that if Republicans try to jam a highly partisan spending bill down the throats of the American people here in the House we'll reject it,” Jeffries said Monday during a press briefing in the Capitol.

With President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill enacted, the Republican-led Appropriations committees in both chambers are charging ahead with a slate of spending........

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