Seth Wenig/ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, delivered a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump in Harlem on Monday. Sharpton also noted the irony that MLK Day comes during the longest-ever partial shutdown of the federal government. “There could be nothing more offensive to the legacy of Martin Luther King” than to keep those workers from getting paid on time, Sharpton said. “One of my favorite quotes from Dr. King was, ‘Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy,’” he said. “It’s not the whole Dr. King that a lot of times is remembered,” de Blasio said.

Source: Huffington Post January 22, 2019 00:00 UTC