Jeffries 'deeply skeptical' about Trump admin signing off on reversal of mass firings
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott that House Democrats are "deeply skeptical" about the Trump administration signing off on the language included in the Senate funding bill that would reverse shutdown firings for federal workers.
"In this deal, there is language for President Trump and the Trump administration to reverse some of the firings that happened during the shutdown. Do you trust that the Trump administration and the president is going to sign off on that and reverse the people who have been fired?" Scott asked Jeffries at his news conference on Monday.
Jeffries answered, in part: "There's reason to be deeply skeptical of the administration and their motives as it relates to the hard-working federal civil servants and the federal workforce, and we will continue to be deeply skeptical of their intentions. ... So, we'll see what the language looks like. But it doesn't change the core problem here, which is we need to decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis on behalf of working-class Americans, everyday Americans and middle-class Americans."
-ABC News' Lauren Peller







