Jeffries on FOD: Dems won't fold

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Jake reflects on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' Fly Out Day interview — and why this shutdown fight feels different. Jeffries opened up about his strategy, his strained dynamic with Trump and why Democrats say they won’t back down. Plus: Trump’s push for a farm bailout and the latest redistricting shake-up in North Carolina. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube! ⁠Subscribe⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? ⁠Subscribe⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at ⁠punchbowl.news.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.1	Wells Fargo.com slash say do. To be honest with you, if you are a Democrat, the politics of what Jeffries and Schumer
0:26.1	are doing, it makes sense.
0:27.7	I'm not defending shutting down the government.
0:30.1	I'm saying I understand what they are doing politically.
0:34.2	I completely get it.
0:45.1	Thank you. politically. I completely get it. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl
0:48.6	News. It is Friday, September 26, 2025. Let's get into the mix here. Are your Washington
0:53.6	headlines in the day? Number one,
0:55.6	Hakeem Jeffries on flyout day. He says Democrats are not going to fold in this funding fight.
1:01.3	Number two, Trump wants a farm bailout. What's that mean for Congress? And number three,
1:06.6	North Carolina Republicans are getting in the redistricting game. Let's get into it.
1:11.6	Top of Punch Bowl news this morning.
1:13.1	Hakeem Jeffries on Fly Out Day.
1:15.4	That's four leaders in four weeks.
1:18.3	On Fly Out Day, our new show about Congress, power people, and politics are guests on the panel.
1:25.1	Not really a panel.
1:26.1	Our guests in the argument portion of the show
1:28.9	where Heather Kagle and Sarah Ferris of CNN, Heather Kagle, our managing editor who has a PhD
1:35.2	in House Democratic politics and Sarah, who's been covering House Democrats for a long time,
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