By Lisa Mascaro, AP Congress Correspondent
Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump has been abruptly canceled The planned meeting of this week with congress democratic leaders, refusing to negotiate their requirements to strengthen funds in health care as part of a deal to prevent a potential to prevent Closure of the federal government.
In a long Tuesday social media post, Trump rejected the sit-down that the White House had agreed with the day before. It would have been the first time that the Republican President met the leaders of the Democratic Party, Senator Chuck Schumer And Rep. Hakeem JeffriesSince his return to the White House.
“I decided that no meeting with their congress leaders could possibly be productive,” Trump wrote in the post.
The president complained that the Democrats “threaten to close the government of the United States,” unless the Republicans agree with it More financing on health care For different groups of people he has criticized. Trump did not close the door to a future sit-down with the democratic leaders, but he warned of a “long and brutal slog” ahead unless Democrats dropped their demands to save health care funds.
With the congress on a stalemateThe government is on its way to a federal closure next week, October 1, if the house and the Senate are unable to approve the legislation needed to finance offices and services in the new tax year. Legislators left the city in the midst of the logjamAnd they are back September 29.
Trump has not been afraid to close the government and was president over during his first term The longest federal closure of the countryDuring the 2018-19 holiday season, when he encouraged the congress to provide funds for his long promised US-Mexico Border Wall.
The president stated during the weekend that essential services, including veterans, would remain open.
Huisminheid leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., Left, and Senate Memerite Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., Speak with reporters to reduce Republican efforts to reduce health care expenses, in the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, September 11, 2025.
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Huisminheid leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., Left, and Senate Memerite Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., Speak with reporters to reduce Republican efforts to reduce health care expenses, in the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, September 11, 2025.
Republicans, who have the majority in both the house and the Senate, have tried to avoid a closure. House speaker Mike Johnson Led at the end of last week of a temporary financing measure, which the government offices would have held in November while discussions are starting.
That is the typical way to buy time during financing fights, but The measure has failed In the Senate. Democrats refused to support the stopgap account because it did not include their priorities of health care funds. A democratic proposal, with the restored health care, was defeated by Senate Republicans.
Schumer and Jeffries have demanded a meeting with Trump to work out a compromise, but the Republican president is cautious to have conversations and has instructed Gop leaders on Capitol Hill not to negotiate with the Democrats.
Thursday’s planned meeting might have set up a confrontation in the White House, reminiscent of the 2018 financing fight when Trump led An explosive public session With Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Earlier Tuesday, Schumer and Jeffries had issued a joint statement stating that the president had agreed after “weeks of Republican Stonewalling” to meet each other in the Oval Office. But after the Republican president had canceled the meeting, Jeffries posted online: “Trump always kicks.”
“Donald Trump has just canceled a meeting with high effort in the Oval Office with myself and leader Schumer,” Jeffries wrote. “The extremists want to close the government because they are not willing to tackle the Republican health care crisis that America has been destroyed.”
Democrats work to protect Healthcare programs. The democratic proposal would extend health insurance subsidies at the end of the year, plus inverted medicaid cuts that were included in The great tax benefits of the Republicans and the publishing of cutbacks established earlier this year.
Republicans have said that the requirements of the Democrats to reverse the Medicaid changes are a non -starter, but they also said that there is time to tackle the problem of health insurance in the coming months.
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