EXCLUSIVE: House Democrats flee when asked about Schumer Shutdown
The lawmakers, who were likely en route to a party at the DNC, had no answers.
The Washington Reporter previously caught Democratic Party staffers partying on the roof of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters amidst the Schumer Shutdown — as it turns out, several Democratic lawmakers seemed to join for the festivities, but fled when asked about their votes to shut the government down.
In videos obtained exclusively by the Reporter, lawmakers like Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) and Steven Horsford (D., Nev.) shuffled into the DNC when pressed about why they voted against the Biden-era continuing resolution that most elected Democrats have voted for plenty of times.
Jeffries flashed a smile while asked “why did you close down the government.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) remarked that Jeffries’s behavior was “actually shameful.”
“Democrat ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries thinks Democrats celebrating themselves shutting down the government at a DNC HQ party is funny,” the committee explained.
Horsford, while walking away, insisted that he was not running away, but rather that he was going to a meeting in the DNC, where most of the visible staffers were on the roof drinking.