Senate Minority Chief Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., communicate at a press convention on the U.S. Capitol on June 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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President Trump abruptly cancelled a deliberate Thursday assembly on the White Home with high congressional Democratic leaders, growing the probabilities of a authorities shutdown on Oct. 1.
Shortly after Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries claimed victory in a joint assertion for securing the assembly on Tuesday morning, the president posted on his social media platform that he was calling it off.
“After reviewing the main points of the unserious and ridiculous calls for being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for his or her Votes to maintain our thriving Nation open, I’ve determined that no assembly with their Congressional Leaders might presumably be productive,” the president wrote.
He argued that the objects within the Democrats’ various funding proposal like rolling again the Medicaid modifications enacted within the president’s signature tax invoice and increasing Inexpensive Care Act tax credit had been nonstarters. “There are penalties to dropping Elections however, based mostly on their letter to me, the Democrats have not figured that out but,” Trump wrote.
Jeffries shot again his personal response on social media saying “Trump At all times Chickens Out,” a reference to the “TACO” slogan that some popularized across the president’s shifting positions on imposing tariffs.
As an indication the messaging battle is just beginning about who’s accountable within the occasion of a shutdown subsequent week, Jeffries added, “the extremists need to shut down the federal government as a result of they’re unwilling to deal with the Republican healthcare disaster that’s devastating America.”
Schumer stated in a press release that the president was “working away from the negotiating desk earlier than he even will get there.” He stated the president would “quite throw a tantrum than do his job.”
Schumer argued, “Trump and Republicans are holding America hostage. Donald Trump will personal the shutdown.”
On Friday the Home narrowly permitted a invoice extending present funding ranges via Nov. 21, however the Senate didn’t have the 60 votes wanted to advance it. An alternate proposal from Democrats additionally failed. Each chambers are on recess this week, and Senate Majority Chief John Thune indicated he’ll carry up a straight extension of funding ranges on Sept. 29. Home leaders cancelled deliberate votes for subsequent Monday and Tuesday and the chamber is not scheduled to return till late subsequent week.
GOP leaders insist Democrats would bear the blame if there’s any interruption in funding, and have dubbed the dynamic “the Schumer shutdown.”
