Trump to meet Monday with top four congressional leaders as government shutdown risk looms
Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump On Monday, he plans to meet the first four congress leaders in the White House the day before the deadline to finance the federal government or to meet A close.
The meeting, including the Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate majority leader John Thune and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, were approved by a White House official and two familiar to planning. Anonymity was given to discuss an unexplained meeting.
“Donald Trump once again accepted a meeting in the Oval Office. As we have said over and over again, everywhere, everyone and everyone will negotiate a bilateral spending agreement that meets the needs of the American people. “We are determined to prevent the closure of a government and to address the Republican Health Crisis. Time is exhausted.”
The meeting was first reported by Punchbowl News.
Parties, the Democrats, in the Senate, a stance for days because they refused to offer the necessary votes to give the government a financing measures on Tuesday.
If no operation was taken, a closure would start on Wednesday at 12: 01.
The Democrats held a meeting with Trump until the Republican leaders intervened and became the president. He called him. However, Schumer spoke specially to Thune on Friday and forced the majority leader to hold a meeting with Trump, planned for the upcoming financing date, according to a assistant for Schumer.
“When the Spokesman Ryan Wrasse begins to question the inexplicable position of the leadership of rank and file democrats, Sen. Schumer is clearly nervous,” he replied. “There is an easy way out and they will get the chance to get next week.”
Democrats, BelievingIn exchange for their votes, they insisted on key health services. They want an extension of subsidies that help low and medium -income winners to buy insurance through the appropriate maintenance law. The Democrats also insist on returning to Medicaid, which includes signature tax measures earlier this year.
Republicans say that these demands are not initiators and they are willing to chat with the democrats on these issues separately from government financing negotiations. The GOP wants to extend the existing financing for seven weeks.
At the beginning of the week, Johnson admitted that he encouraged Trump not to meet with democratic leaders.
“He and I talked for a long time ago yesterday and the day before. Look, when they do their jobs, when they do their jobs, you can have a meeting with him at the Mike & McCarty show in Louisiana. “Of course, it can be productive at that point, but now, it’s just the loss of time.”
And Thune, RS.D., said that he was “negotiating with the president ve and presented his opinion about the meeting, at the beginning of the week. “But I think the President is talking for himself and I think the meeting would not be productive,” Thune said.
The Democrats stated that voters confident that they would blame Trump and Republicans for interruptions in federal services, but this is not guaranteed at all.
On the other hand, the Republicans were moving towards the working week with the plans in the Senate to continue their refusal to accept the stopping of the democrats, House GOP planned to stay away from Washington in their reluctance to deal with democratic alternatives.
This came with potential political disadvantages for the Republicans, as the Democrats said, as Jeffries said.
