Vice President J.D. Vance described the reactions of Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York to “Trump 2028” hats during a Wednesday appearance on “Fox and Friends.”
Trump posted the image of the hat that was prominently displayed during Tuesday’s meeting with Schumer and Jeffries to discuss a short-term spending bill to prevent a government shutdown on Truth Social. After “Fox and Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked about the negotiations, co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones jumped in to ask about the hats. (RELATED: CNBC Host Asks Democrat Senator Point-Blank If Her Party Is Hoodwinking GOP Over Government Shutdown Demands)
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“Thank you, Lawrence, that’s the most important part, they’re also the Trump 2028 hats, which I think made the minority leader in both the House and Senate very uncomfortable,” Vance said while chuckling at Jones and Kilmeade’s question. “But look, it was the four of them plus me and the president, and we were having a very good conversation about health care policy, but the president finally threw up his hands and said, let’s absolutely work on this healthcare policy disagreement, we want to fix this issue for American people, but we’re not going to be taken hostage. We’re not going to shut down the government and give you everything you want. Let’s negotiate, but we’re not going to reward this behavior.”
“You have to remember, their first proposal about a week ago was to give a bunch of health care money to illegal aliens and they came back and said okay, no, we don’t have to do that, let’s do this other thing,” Vance continued. “You don’t do a negotiation like that. You don’t take the American economy hostage and then tell the president of the United States, give us everything that we want or we will shut down the people’s government. It’s ridiculous, and look, we had a good conversation, but a conversation where they refused to acknowledge their negotiating tactic was unreasonable.”
The Senate failed to pass a seven-week continuing resolution on Tuesday, falling short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster. The House passed the short-term funding bill on Sept. 19.
Democrats have demanded over $1 trillion in funding for various priorities, including restoring funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP), which will shut down after its funding was clawed back in a rescissions package passed in July.
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