Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have requested a meeting this week of the four major congressional leaders ahead of the Sept. 30 government funding deadline.
The other leaders are House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.).
“As leaders of the House and Senate, you have the responsibility to govern for all Americans and work on a bipartisan basis to avert a painful, unnecessary shutdown at the end of September,” Schumer and Jeffries wrote in an Aug. 4 letter to Thune and Johnson. “Yet it is clear that the Trump administration and many within your party are preparing to ‘go at it alone’ and continue to legislate on a solely Republican basis.”…
Schumer, Jeffries Request ‘Big Four’ Meeting Ahead of Government Funding Deadline
