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JD Vance Promises Hakeem Jeffries the ‘Sombrero Memes Will Stop’ if He Ends Shutdown

Vice President JD Vance vowed the memes mocking House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will cease if Democrats help end the government shutdown amid intensified partisan tensions.

  • Vice President JD Vance promised Hakeem Jeffries that the memes mocking him would stop if he helped reopen the government.
  • The shutdown was caused by Senate Democrats' refusal to support a Republican funding bill, leading to blame trading in Congress.
  • Hakeem Jeffries condemned the memes as 'disgusting' and vowed to fight against bigotry, as he stated on MSNBC.
  • Two-Thirds of Americans oppose the shutdown according to a New York Times poll, as per Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's statement.
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After President Donald Trump shared several memes and videos of the minority leader in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, wearing a hat and Mexican maracas, the Democrats reacted indignantly, accusing the Republican leader of “racist.” However, after the legislative negotiations failed and the first government shutdown was completed in seven years, the Democrats responded with the same tactic, raising memes from Trump, the Republican…

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Politico broke the news in on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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