US EditionTrump cancels meeting with Democratic leaders ahead of government shutdown deadline
- President Donald Trump withdrew from a scheduled meeting on September 25 in Washington D.C. with top Democratic congressional leaders aimed at addressing budget negotiations.
- The meeting was intended to break the budget deadlock before the current government funding expires on the night of September 30, following Democratic insistence that health care costs be addressed in the funding legislation.
- Trump agreed to meet with Democratic leaders at first but cancelled after reviewing their demands, which he criticized as unserious and unreasonable, particularly objecting to proposals involving Medicaid cuts and extensions of Obamacare subsidies.
- In an extensive post on September 23, Trump announced that he would not engage in talks with Democratic congressional leaders, stating such discussions would be unproductive, and emphasized that the responsibility now lies with them.
- The cancellation complicates efforts to avoid a government shutdown, as Trump conditioned future talks on Democrats becoming realistic about policies he views as radical left demands.
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‘Unserious And Ridiculous Demands’: Trump Cancels Budget Talks With Democrats As Shutdown Looms
By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | September 23, 2025 President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly canceled a meeting with top congressional Democrats to discuss their budget demands, just a week before the deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown. A shutdown could lead to federal employees not being paid, as well as interruptions in some government services.“After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being…
Hakeem Jeffries Perfectly Claps Back After Trump Cancels Budget Meeting With Democratic Leaders
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries invoked a derogatory nickname for President Donald Trump after Trump canceled a budget meeting with Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, effectively barring them from discussing Democrats' demands to shore up health care funds to avoid a government shutdown.After a meeting between Trump and the Democratic leaders had been scheduled, Trump abruptly canceled the meeting, saying he'd "decided that…
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Trump scraps meeting with Democratic leaders to avert shutdown
President Donald Trump has called off a planned sit-down with Democratic leaders that was aimed at preventing a looming government shutdown. The White House had been preparing for Trump to meet later this week with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., as the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government approaches. That meeting was tentatively set for Thursday. On Tuesday, however, Trump ann…
Trump cancels meeting with Democrats as shutdown nears - West Hawaii Today
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday canceled a meeting at the White House with top congressional Democrats to discuss federal funding, writing on social media that he had decided talks would not be “productive,” escalating a standoff that threatens to shut down the government next week.
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KTSMGOP hopes to make potential shutdown as painful for Dems as possible
President Trump and GOP lawmakers are itching to make a potential government shutdown as painful as possible for Democrats as negotiations show few signs of progress with less than a week to go before the deadline. Republicans and Democrats have talked past each other for weeks, with each side refusing to pivot from their calls for a seven-week "clean" stopgap package and for protecting Affordable Care Act subsidies, respectively. But with the …
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