Overview

• The clip featured Jarabe Tapatío music, a sombrero and mustache added to Hakeem Jeffries, and a fabricated, vulgar voiceover falsely attributed to Chuck Schumer.
• Trump posted the video on X and Truth Social only hours after meeting the Democratic leaders at the White House.
• Schumer and Jeffries condemned the video on X, with Jeffries urging action to protect health care and Schumer accusing Republicans of treating a shutdown as a joke.
• The White House meeting, which also included House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, ended without an agreement before Tuesday’s funding deadline.
• Democrats are pressing to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies and oppose recent Medicaid cuts, while many Republicans advocate a clean continuing resolution that would require Democratic support in the Senate.