House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is defending Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) from liberals' criticism in the wake of a bipartisan budget deal to reopen the government.
Jeffries emphasized that Schumer was not a party to the spending agreement that advanced on the Senate floor Sunday night, and he praised the Democratic leader for holding the line for more than a month.
"Leader Schumer and Senate Democrats over the last seven weeks have...