Democrats Leave White House With No Deal
time.com
The government is still set to shutdown, after Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump and didn't reach a deal.

With just over 24 hours before the government is set to shutdown, Donald Trump and congressional leaders from both parties emerged from a high-stakes White House meeting on Monday with no agreement, setting the stage for large swaths of the federal government to close after midnight Wednesday.

The impasse came after closed-door talks between the four top congressional leaders and Trump in the Oval Office, where lawmakers appeared to trade blame but make little progress towards a deal. “There are still large differences between us,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters after the meeting, claiming that Republicans refused to engage on their core demands around health care and restoring previous funding cuts.

“Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input,” he added, taking aim at a House-passed seven-week stopgap funding bill that Senate Democrats rejected last week. “That is never how we’ve done this before.”

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    61·
    19 hours ago

    I’m neither. I want the opposition party to be an opposition party when its important to do so, like it is now.

    That means not trying to find common ground with fascists.

    • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
      21·
      19 hours ago

      That’s what they’re doing. I’ll be the first to gripe the DNC as a whole but the way you’re mischaracterizing things is not helpful.

      As per the article:

      Democrats have continued to assert that their votes—which are needed to clear the Senate’s 60-vote threshold—are contingent on the bill including key health care provisions, particularly a permanent extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that have helped millions of middle-class families afford coverage. Without action, those subsidies will expire at year’s end, raising premiums just as Americans begin signing up for 2026 plans in November.

      Democrats also want to reverse $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid that Republicans enacted unilaterally this summer, eliminate new work requirements for that program, block the White House from clawing back funds previously approved by Congress, and restore funding for medical research. But they have focused their demands on the ACA subsidies.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 hours ago

        Its not a mischaracterization to say I don’t agree with what the Democrats are doing. They shouldn’t be negotiating to keep the government open. Period. They can stop things from happening by shutting the thing down and preventing the real day to day damage. Don’t open it back till after the midterms, and sure as shit don’t do anything that Republicans will spin to help themselves.

        I’ve been through two shut downs/ near shutdowns as a freddie. Its fine. Shut it down.