Jeffries slams House GOP’s government funding plan: ‘unserious and unacceptable’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP’s stopgap funding proposal as “unserious and unacceptable,” setting the stage for a close vote in the lower chamber on Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) gambit to avert a government shutdown. Jeffries, in a letter to colleagues, said Johnson’s government funding legislation — which pairs a six-month...