The main leaders of the Congress are directed to the White House on Monday afternoon to meet with President Donald Trump in a final effort to avoid a closure of the government, but as a dead point persists only one day from the deadline, a closure seems almost inevitable, except for an unexpected advance.
Hours before the meeting, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said there is nothing to negotiate “with the bipartisan leadership of Congress on Monday, since the administration continues to push legislators to approve a short -term financing bill known as a continuous clean and clean resolution.
“Our message and what we want this is very simple: the president wants to maintain the open government. He wants to keep the government funded. There are zero good reasons for Democrats to vote against this continuous resolution,” Leavitt told journalists from the White House on Monday morning. “The president is giving the Democrats a last chance to be reasonable today.”
President Donald Trump expects to greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, on September 29, 2025, in Washington.
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The legislators on both sides of the hall are digging before the deadline on Tuesday night, with the Democrats maintaining their position that they will not vote to maintain the open government without the high concessions of medical care. These demands include restoring the $ 1 billion cuts in Medicaid approved this summer at the top of a permanent extension of Obamacare subsidies that will expire at the end of the year, saving health insurance for 3.8 million people at a cost of $ 350 billion in the next decade, according to the Congress Budget Office.
“The Democrats of the House of Representatives, the Senate Democrats are at the close,” said the leader of the representatives minority, Hakeem Jeffries, to journalists on Monday morning at the Capitol. “We go to the meeting to have a good faith negotiation on the landing of the plane in a way that avoids a government closure but does not continue the republican assault on the medical care of the US people.”
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, talks to journalists during a press conference at the United States Capitol building, on September 29, 2025 in Washington.
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In “Meet The Press” of NBC, the senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said he hopes that the meeting will focus on the “serious negotiation.”
“We need a serious negotiation. Now, if he President in this The meeting will rant, and will only shout to the Democrats, and talk about all their alleged complaints, and say this, and that, and he Another thing, we will do nothing. But my hope is a serious negotiation, “Schumer said Sunday.
The meeting marks the first leadership meeting at the Bicameral and Bipartisan Congress of the Factical Congress of Trump’s second mandate, and occurs after a previously scheduled meeting last week was rejected by the president after he said he reviewed the democratic proposal and judged that a meeting would not be productive.
“Republicans control the Chamber and the Senate, and as Republican President, if the government closes, it is because Republicans want to close the government,” Jeffries said.
A meeting was agreed after Schumer implored the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, for help to get to Trump, according to a Schumer assistant, although Jeffries seems flushed by the possibility of prolonged negotiations.
Last week, the White House issued guidance to federal agencies that should consider executing a reduction in force for federal employees whose works are not considered essential for government operations, a measure aimed at increasing pressure on Democrats who have a declared objective to protect a federal workforce that has already been written by the Trump administration.
Although the Republicans of the House of Representatives approved a detention measure to maintain the open government until November 21, the measure has stagnated in the Senate, where at least seven Democrats must vote for any measure that a closure is removed.
The Republicans developed a “clean” seven -week stop bill to create more time for Congress appropriators to work in regular order: 12 Financing bill throughout the year separately. The Congress has not approved the 12 allocation bill through a regular order since 1997, and the task has only been completed four times since 1977 when the current budget rules entered into force.
The speaker Mike Johnson maintained during the weekend to approve the continuous resolution in the short term is “buying a little time” for the regular appropriation process.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, speaks with the media after a vote in the United States Representatives Chamber in a bill of stop expenses to avoid a partial closure of the government that would otherwise begin on October 1 in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 19, 2025.
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“Obamacare subsidies is a political debate that must be determined by the end of the year, on December 31, not at this time, while we are simply trying to maintain the open government so that we can have all these debates,” Johnson said in CNN on Sunday.
The federal government has closed due to a period of appropriations 10 times since 1980, with the longest closing, 35 days, occurring during the first Trump administration.
