{"id":13794,"date":"2025-09-28T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-to-meet-with-top-congressional-leaders-monday-on-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:01:41","slug":"trump-to-meet-with-top-congressional-leaders-monday-on-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-to-meet-with-top-congressional-leaders-monday-on-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to meet with top congressional leaders Monday on shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The top congressional leaders of both parties will meet Monday afternoon with President Donald Trump \u2014 less than 48 hours before a possible government shutdown \u2014 according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the plans ahead of a public announcement.<\/p>\n

The meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>, Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a>, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> is set to take place less than a week after Trump abruptly canceled<\/a> a previously scheduled meeting with Schumer and Jeffries. <\/p>\n

“I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things that our Country stands for,” Trump wrote on social media Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Democrats are pressing for an extension<\/a> of health insurance subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, among other concessions. Trump and Republicans will press Senate Democrats to allow a House-approved seven-week stopgap<\/a> pass and punt any larger negotiation for later. All Democratic senators except Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman voted to block the continuing resolution earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The people knowledgeable about the meeting noted Thune and Johnson have said they are willing to discuss the insurance subsidies at a later time. Trump isn\u2019t expected to ask Democrats for anything additional at the meeting, they said, but agreed to meet with Democratic leaders after they asked for the sitdown.<\/p>\n

“We want a clean CR, same as it always was,\u201d one of the people said.<\/p>\n

The meeting, which was first reported by Punchbowl News, is currently slated for 2 p.m. Monday. Senate Republicans are expected to put the House-passed measure up for a second vote Tuesday just hours before the midnight shutdown deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top congressional leaders of both parties will meet Monday afternoon with President Donald Trump \u2014 less than 48 hours before a possible government shutdown \u2014 according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the plans ahead of a public announcement. The meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}