By Alicia Diaz and Steven T. Dennis
House Republican leaders told their members on a conference call Saturday that they plan to stay away from Washington while the government is shut down.
“The message was very simple, the House has done its work,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota said in an interview Saturday on Fox News. “House Republicans are ready to get back to work and finish the people’s business as soon as Chuck Schumer and Democrats in the Senate reopen the government.”
Speaker Mike Johnson already announced Friday that the chamber will not return to Washington next week, escalating his strategy to try to force Senate Democrats into passing the GOP-written stopgap measure and reopen the government without a deal on health-care subsidies.
It’s the second time the Louisiana Republican has moved to keep lawmakers out of town, having earlier canceled planned votes on Sept. 29 and 30.
Earlier Saturday, the House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted Republicans in an interview on MSNBC for going “on vacation” instead of negotiating a deal to prevent tens of millions from seeing massive increases in their health-care premiums.
“This administration is trying to bully us and we’re not going to be bullied,” he said. “There is unity in the House, in the Senate, amongst Democats, that this issue has to be addressed.
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