Vice President JD Vance promised Hakeem Jeffries that President Donald Trump’s memes aimed at the House minority leader will stop if he helps Republicans end the government shutdown.
Vance spent several minutes answering reporters’ questions during the White House press briefing Wednesday, the first day of the federal shutdown after Democrats in the U.S. Senate refused to back a continuing resolution to fund the government temporarily.
On Tuesday night, Trump posted a digitally altered video of a Jeffries’ MSNBC interview that included the minority leader wearing a sombrero as a mariachi band of Trumps serenaded the Brooklyn Democrat. Earlier, the president posted a video meme showing Jeffries in a sombrero alongside Schumer outside the White House.
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