{"id":14702,"date":"2025-10-21T19:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-jeffries-reach-out-to-donald-trump-as-shutdown-grinds-on\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:47:19","slug":"schumer-jeffries-reach-out-to-donald-trump-as-shutdown-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-jeffries-reach-out-to-donald-trump-as-shutdown-grinds-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer, Jeffries reach out to Donald Trump as shutdown grinds on"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The top congressional Democrats contacted President Donald Trump on Tuesday to request a meeting as the shutdown drags into a fourth week.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> said in comments to reporters after a closed-door caucus lunch that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> \u201creached out to the president today and urged him to sit down and negotiate with us to resolve the health care crisis, address it and end the government shutdown.\u201d <\/p>\n

Schumer added that he and Jeffries told the White House they were willing to meet \u201cany time, any place\u201d before Trump leaves the country Friday for a weeklong trip to Asian countries.<\/p>\n

The two leaders met with Trump at the White House a day before the shutdown started Oct. 1 but emerged without an agreement. Since then, Democratic leaders have clamored for Trump to directly engage on negotiations to end the shutdown, including an agreement on soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies.<\/p>\n

Republicans believe Trump is ready to come to the table to talk about the latter, but only after Democrats agree to reopen the government.<\/p>\n

Trump met with Senate Republicans on Tuesday to tout their unity in the funding fight. Republicans will force a 12th vote later Tuesday on a House-passed funding bill, which is expected to fail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top congressional Democrats contacted President Donald Trump on Tuesday to request a meeting as the shutdown drags into a fourth week. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in comments to reporters after a closed-door caucus lunch that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries \u201creached out to the president today and urged him to […]<\/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-14702","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\/14702","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=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}