Dem Hakeem Jeffries Lies That His Party Never Withholds Government Funding for Political Leverage
Jeffries told CNN that his party does not approach government funding in terms of leverage.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYTwitchy is a blog with a strongly partisan presentation, and this article offers little independent reporting or corroboration. The named author provides some attribution, but the piece relies heavily on embedded clips and social-media posts.
- Source type — A blog with a pronounced partisan orientation.
- Editorial standards — The article uses categorical accusations and offers little independent verification.
- Transparency — The article points to interview and social-media clips, but provides limited reporting context.
- Author attribution — A named author is listed.
The article includes Jeffries’s quoted response and references clips of earlier remarks, but its central claims are presented through a one-sided, accusatory frame with little independent verification or countervailing context.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article quotes Jeffries’s denial and includes Bash’s challenge, but largely adopts the conclusion that Democrats are lying and offers no substantial competing account.
- Counterarguments presented — Jeffries’s denial appears, but the article dismisses it rather than exploring his explanation.
- Loaded language — Repeatedly characterizes Democrats and their statements in accusatory terms.
- Source diversity — The piece relies on a small set of selected interview and social-media excerpts.
- Omitted context — Provides little context about the funding negotiations or the parties’ competing positions.
The article uses strongly anti-Democratic language and frames Jeffries’s statement as a lie rather than neutrally examining the dispute.
- Language tone — Uses charged phrases including “laughably disagrees,” “blatant lie” and “SICK.”
- Framing — Presents Democratic funding decisions as deliberate harm to Americans and support for people in the country illegally.
- Source selection — Relies on selected clips and social-media posts critical of Democrats, with little additional context.
Twitchy accuses House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of falsely denying that Democrats use government funding as leverage, citing the DHS funding lapse and his CNN interview. The article also invokes earlier remarks by Senators Chris Murphy and Katherine Clark as support for its criticism.
The article says Democrats have withheld Department of Homeland Security funding since Valentine’s Day, causing airport delays while TSA agents worked five weeks without pay. It argues that the funding dispute is intended to pressure changes to ICE, and quotes Jeffries telling CNN’s Dana Bash, “We never approach government funding in terms of leverage.”
Twitchy calls Jeffries’s denial a lie and points to earlier remarks by Chris Murphy about Democrats losing leverage as the government reopened, and a past shutdown statement attributed to Katherine Clark. The article presents those remarks as evidence for its criticism of Democrats’ use of funding disputes.
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SWIPE →House Minority Leader responding to questions about the use of government funding as leverage
Senator whose earlier remarks about leverage are cited as an example
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