Backfire: Hakeem Jeffries Left Humilated on CNBC as Host Makes an Important Point That Completely Demolishes His Case for the Government Shutdown (VIDEO)
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) continues to make an embarrassment of himself every time he appears on television to try to talk about the government shutdown his party caused.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Schumer Shutdown took effect at 12:01 am on October 1 after two measures to avert the government shutdown failed in the Senate.
The measures needed 60 votes to pass. The GOP-backed measure failed to pass in a 55-45 vote – Rand Paul voted with the Democrats.
The Democrat Party to put the welfare of illegal aliens, higher taxes by repealing Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill, surgeries for transgender minors, and more garbage ahead of keeping the government running.
Jeffries, however, has continuously claimed that Democrats had no choice because they needed to force Republicans to permanently extend Obamacare tax credits or else Americans would face crippling health insurance bills.
On Friday, Jeffries appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to again make his point and to smear Republicans as the party responsible for the shutdown, but co-host Becky Quick was not buying his garbage.
Quick made an excellent point that completely dismantled Jeffries’ argument for the shutdown. She noted that Democrats had a golden opportunity to permanently extend the Obamacare tax credits when they controlled all three branches of government, yet they failed to do so.
Instead, they settled for a mere three-year extension, which has created this current predicament. Now, the Democrats are holding the government hostage to demand that THE REPUBLICANS fix the problem.
You cannot get more shameless and pathetic than this.
Jeffries had no way to counter the Quick except to repeat the facts she revealed before returning to his stupid talking points.
WATCH:
BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries just got brutally EMBARRASSED on national television – gets CALLED OUT for his hypocrisy
“What you’re asking Republicans to do when they control the White House, Senate and House is what the DEMOCRATS could NOT do when you controlled all 3 heads of… pic.twitter.com/86d20BmmYK
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 24, 2025
QUICK: What you are asking Republicans to do right now, when they control the White House, the Senate, and the House, is effectively what the Democrats could not do when they controlled all three branches of government.
The three-year setup for the expiration of these (Obamacare) credits was intentionally put in when you controlled the White House, the House, and the Senate.
This is a set-up of your own creation…Now you want the Republicans to do something you didn’t do when you were in power.
JEFFRIES: Uh, it’s not a setup beyond what we can do. Uh, we extended the Affordable Care Act tax credits in 2022 for three years…And it should be continued.
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