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Hakeem Jeffries: “Donald Trump definitively needs to get involved. He needs to…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Published October 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:50

Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save health care. Do you see this shutdown ending in any way without Trump's involvement? Does he need to get involved? Donald Trump definitively needs to get involved. He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the golf course and actually decide to end the shutdown that he's created, that he has allowed to happen. We know that House and Senate Republicans don't do anything without getting permission from their boss, Donald J. Trump. (07:50–08:03)

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Asserts that Donald Trump created and allowed the government shutdown to happen.

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