WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump suddenly cancels This week’s planning meeting Together with Congressional Democratic leaders, refuse to negotiate their demands to strengthen their health funds as part of a deal to prevent potential looming. Federal government closures.
In a long Tuesday social media post, Trump rejected the sit-in the White House previously agreed to. It would have been the first time a Republican president had met a Democratic leader. Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffriessince he returned to the White House.
“I have decided that their meeting with Congressional leaders is unlikely to be productive,” Trump wrote in the Post.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., Left and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., speaks to reporters on Thursday, September 11, 2025, to criticize Republican efforts to cut health costs in Washington’s Capitol.
The president accused Democrats of “threatening to shut down the US government” unless Republicans agree. More funding for healthcare He was for various groups of people who criticized him. Trump did not close the door for future sit-ins with Democratic leaders, but warned of “long and brutal throws” unless Democrats drop their demands to save healthcare funds.
Stagnum Even to make a funding deal, or even to compromise between the White House and Congress, it quickly strengthened the risk of federal closures over the next week ahead of the October 1 deadline for the start of the government’s new fiscal year.
Democrat leaders quickly accused the Republican president of throwing tantrums and fleeing the situation.
“Trump always kicks out chickens,” Jeffries posted on X.
In a post directed at Trump, Schumer said Democrats would sit down and discuss “when they’ve finished rants” about health care.
Schumer said Trump “runs away from the negotiation table before he gets there,” and “throws more tantrums than he does work.”
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. will speak at a press conference at Capitol Hill, Washington on Friday, September 19, 2025 (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump was not afraid to shut down the government and was president during his first term. The longest federal closure in Japanduring the 2018-19 holiday season, he pushed Congress to fund the long-standing US border wall.
The president argued over the weekend that essential services, including veterans, remained open.
The scheduled meeting on Thursday will potentially set a showdown in the White House, which is reminiscent of the 2018 fundraising battle when Trump led Explosive public session With Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Schumer and Jeffries have called for the meeting with Trump to resolve compromises over the health fund, and early Tuesday they welcomed plans for this week’s meeting.
However, the Republican president has been reluctant to take part in the talks and has instructed Capitol Hill GOP leaders not to negotiate with Democrats.
House Speaker Mike Johnson The office said Democrats are holding government funding “hostages” to their demands for enormous amounts of healthcare funding.
Republicans with a majority in both the House and Senate are trying to avoid closing. Johnson led the passage of temporary funding measures last week.
It’s a typical way to buy time during the fundraising battle, Measurement failed In the Senate. Democrats have declined to support the StopGap bill because it does not include priorities for the health fund. The democratic proposal, which recovered healthcare costs, was defeated by Senate Republicans.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., told reporters before the Washington deadline that Republicans are putting American health care at risk with policies to fund government and strategies to fund government before the deadline set for Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
The democratic proposal expands the included reverse Medicaid reductions in addition to the enhanced health insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year Republican large tax credits and spending cuts bills It was established earlier this year.
Republicans said Democrats’ demand to reverse the Medicaid changes were non-starters, but they also said they have time to address the issue of health insurance subsidies in the coming months.
The council was sent home in logjam, and the house cancelled next week’s session. However, Jeffries summoned House Democrats in a letter to his colleagues, and was expected to see Senators resume sessions Monday evening as well.
