The government may be shut down and the House isn’t in session — but lawmakers are having debates in the halls of the Capitol.
On Wednesday alone, Speaker Mike Johnson held a debate with two Democratic senators about the government shutdown and the Epstein files, just hours before House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sparred with Rep. Mike Lawler over the Republican’s bipartisan legislation to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.
During the tense confrontation, Jeffries repeatedly told his colleague in the New York delegation, “You’re embarrassing yourself.”