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Hakeem Jeffries: “They haven't been given permission by their puppet master…”

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

Jeffries responds to Johnson calling him and Schumer 'irredeemable'

Published October 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:43

Of course not. It's a silly, unhinged conspiracy theory. The thing that we know to be true about Mike Johnson and House Republicans is that They haven't been given permission by their puppet master, that would be Donald J. Trump, to sit down and have a conversation with Democrats. We've said from the very beginning that we want to reopen the government, that we want to enter into a bipartisan spending agreement that actually meets the needs of the … (01:43–01:52)

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