Trump cancels meeting with top Democrats as government shutdown looms [View all]

Source: CNBC

Published Tue, Sep 23 2025 10:01 AM EDT Updated 2 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to cancel a planned meeting this week with the two top Democrats in Congress, just days before the federal government is set to shut down. Trump had been scheduled to meet with Senate and House Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries sometime this week — an event that both Democrats had confirmed as recently as Tuesday morning.

But Trump, in a Truth Social post, seemed to scrap those plans. “After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” Trump wrote.

Jeffries in an X post later Tuesday morning wrote, “Trump Always Chickens Out.”

“Donald Trump just cancelled a high stakes meeting in the Oval Office with myself and Leader Schumer. The extremists want to shut down the government because they are unwilling to address the Republican healthcare crisis that is devastating America,” the Democratic leader wrote.

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