House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats joined faith leaders on Thursday to pray and speak against the dangers of health care cuts and allowing government assistance programs to expire during the ongoing government shutdown.
“We will not retreat, and we will use every nonviolent tool at our disposal to call this nation, this Congress, to stop all of this partisan fighting and get down to the business of the people,” said William Barber II, a prominent social justice activist, at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
“Open this government so that you can open up good news for the poor.”
