President Donald Trump and the Congress Republicans believe that there is only one way to avoid a closure at midnight on Tuesday: the Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, has to change his mind.
GOP leaders still need critical votes from Schumer and his party to sign any financing bill. And for the moment, none of the parts is retreating.
With a little more than 24 hours until a funding laps, Schumer and his colleagues leaders in Congress will join Trump in the White House for a last chance meeting to avoid a closure. It is not clear, however, that one or the other of the parties is interested in an appeal session.
President Mike Johnson reported in an interview with CNN that Trump wishes to use the meeting to influence the Democrats to accept the GOP plan – without the Obamacare, Schumer tax credits and the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries room are demanding.
“Chuck Schumer returned with a long list of laundromat of partisan requests that do not get into this process, and he will try to close the government. The president wants to talk to him and say, do not do this,” Johnson told Jake Tapper from CNN on Sunday. “He wants to speak with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and try to convince them to follow common sense.”
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, who will also attend the meeting on Monday, added on “Meet the Press” of NBC: “It is completely up to the Democrats”.
The Democrats, on the other hand, used their own appearances on the Sunday program circuit in Washington to emphasize that they would not move their requests in exchange to help the funding of the government.
“Our position was very clear: cancel the cuts, reduce costs, save health care,” said Jeffries on ABC’s “this week”.
Democrats have taken a hard line to require an extension of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies in exchange for the Democrats necessary in the Senate to adopt a government financing bill. And the two leaders were united at the meeting on Monday, publishing a joint declaration on Saturday by saying: “We are resolved in our determination to avoid a closure of the government and to approach the republican health care crisis.”
Monday’s meeting will be the first time that Schumer and Trump will have been talking about the president’s second inauguration on January 20. And it will be the first time that the president and Jeffries will have a meeting in person.
The full Senate will return to Washington later on Monday, where the room will still have a chance to avoid a closure. GOP leaders plan to vote on this same financing plan once again before October 1. But several democratic sources have told CNN that they expected that most of their members hold the line. Jeffries told his members during a call on Friday afternoon that he had recently spoken with Schumer and that he had been assured of this result, according to a person on the call.
The Republicans have repeatedly rejected the concerns concerning subsidies to the Act respecting affordable care, because they do not express before the end of the year, even though the Democrats stressed the need to resolve the question before the start of the inscriptions opened on November 1.
“We can have this conversation, but before doing it: release the hostage, release the American people, keep the government open, then have a conversation on these premium tax credits. I am certainly open to this. I think we are all,” said Thune on Sunday. But, he added: “I think there is potentially a path to follow.”
The bitter floor between Trump and the Democrats has been built for months, with the minority party who looked at the GOP reduced Medicaid to pay tax reductions, deployed American troops in the blue cities of the police, trample the own Congress expenditure services and now, use the Ministry of Justice to pursue political enemies like the former director of FBI James Comey.
With their database firmly behind them, Schumer and his democrats refuse to support the extension of the financing of Trump’s major political concessions – including billions of dollars to help make Obamacare more affordable. But Trump and the GOP are not in the mood to disagree, and the administration shows that it will make things as painful as possible for Democrats because it threatens dramatic movements such as permanent cuts to the agency’s pay.
Already, the two parties are preparing for a ugly messages on which voters will blame for the dead end. The Democrats of the House plan to return to Washington on Monday evening to try to maximize the pressure on Trump and the Republicans, but their side of the Capitol will be mainly empty. President Mike Johnson should keep his members at home for the week, the management sources of the GOP arguing that they have already done their job and that it is on Schumer to accept their plan.
During previous closures, like that of 2013, the leaders of the Chamber kept their members in Washington and held votes on the financing of key priorities – such as the military, the veterans or the border patrol. But the Republicans say that it would only offer political coverage to vulnerable democrats.
GOP representative, Adrian Smith of Nebraska, said on Friday that Trump’s extended authority when closed – with more discretion on federal operations than usual – should dissuade democrats from leaving funding.
“It is quite basic that the executive power expanded the authority when closing. This is something that I think the Democrats would avoid, but we will see,” Smith said on Friday.
Even with the threat of the White House of permanent layoffs if the federal government firm, the Republicans of the Congress are fiercely united in the conviction that the Democrats encourage the struggle and will pay the political price.
“It is pure despair and it will hurt them,” said GOP help.
But the Democrats argue that the leaders of the GOP underestimate their party towards Trump and overestimate their closing point.
“It will be a long stop at high issues, unlike everything we have ever seen before.” Get up for a storm hell. ”
At the White House, officials have shown little additional emergency to avoid a closure despite the imminent deadline – claiming that the sole responsibility of the Democrats to end the confrontation by accepting a stainless financing stopgap.
This point of view has been reinforced in recent days by the refusal of democrats to reduce their requests for insistence on waves of health care, most of which the White House categorically excluded at the start of negotiations weeks ago.
In recent days, Trump has sought to seize the non -specific messaging of democrats and define their requests in a most advantageous way for him, accusing the party of seeking to finance health care for undocumented immigrants, to facilitate restrictions on the southern border and to advance transgender policies.
“It’s their own,” said Trump on Friday about Democrats. “They want to give billions, ultimately, billions of dollars in dollars, to illegal migrants, people who have entered our country illegally.”
In reality, Democrats have not sought anything from these things, rather focusing on efforts aimed at reversing the funding for key health care that the Republicans have adopted earlier this year and prolonging certain subsidies for the registrations of the Act respecting affordable care.
But Democratic leaders have hitherto hesitated to publicly specify compromise areas, and Trump officials and Republican leaders – convinced that they have the political advantage leading on Tuesday – have not seen any reason to weaken their lasting demand for a clean financing measure.
“Republicans say essentially, let’s just keep the government open, it is the simplicity of their messaging, it is a reasonable sentence for most Americans,” said Doug Heye, a long -standing strategist of the GOP. “No one gets it better than Mike Johnson, and he understands that political messaging is advantageous.”
Ellis Kim and Camila Déchalus de CNN contributed to this report.
