Congressional leaders left a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday without any agreement to head off a partial government shutdown and no apparent exit strategy once the federal funding lapse begins on Wednesday.
The Oval Office session did nothing to resolve “very large differences” between the two parties that make a shutdown likely, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters after the meeting.
Republicans want a “clean,” seven-week funding extension, which the House passed Sept. 19 before Democrats blocked it in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., had planned to call it up for a do-over vote Tuesday, but that seems likely to encounter the same fate as earlier this month.
