Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump abruptly canceled the planned meeting of this week with democratic leaders in the congress and refused to negotiate their demands to prevent the health fund as part of an agreement to prevent a potential conclusion of the Federal Government.
In a lengthy social media post on Tuesday, Trump declined that the White House had approved the day before. It would have been the first time that the Republican President hit the leaders of the Democratic Party, Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, since his return to the White House.
“I decided that no meeting with her congress heads could possibly be productive,” wrote Trump in the post office.
The President complained that the Democrats “threaten to close the United States’ government” unless the Republicans undertake more funds for health care for various groups of people he criticized. Trump did not close the door with the democratic leaders in the future, but he warned of a “long and brutal slog”, unless the Democrats dropped their demands to the salvage of health funds.
The patient situation of a financing contract – or even discussions between the White House and the Congress to achieve a compromise – quickly strengthened the risk of federal closings until next week before the deadline for the start of the novel government of the government on October 1.
The democratic leaders quickly accused the Republican President of having joined a tantrum and running away from the situation.
“Trump always chickens,” said Jeffries on X.
In a contribution directed against Trump, Schumer said that the Democrats will sit down and to discuss health care “when they are done”.
Schumer said Trump “run away in front of the negotiating table before he even arrives” and “would rather throw a tantrum than to do his job”.
Trump was not afraid to have closed the government, and was in the longest part of the federal government in the longest closure of the 2018-19 President of the longest federal closure when he urged congress to provide funds for his long-promised border wall in the USA-Mexico.
The president insisted on the weekend that vital services, including those for veterans, would remain open.
The planned meeting on Thursday might have set up a showdown in the White House, which was reminiscent of the 2018 financing struggle when Trump led an explosive public session with Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Schumer and Jeffries had asked for a meeting with Trump to compromise the health money, and on Tuesday on Tuesday, plans for the meeting this week welcomed.
But the Republican President hesitated to go to talks and instructed GOP leaders at the Capitol Hill not to negotiate with the Democrats.
The House Speaker’s office Mike Johnson said that the Democrats consider state financing to be the demands of enormous amounts of financial resources in healthcare.
Republicans who have the majority in both the house and the Senate have tried to avoid shutdown. At the end of last week, Johnson had led the passage to a fleeting financing measure that would have gone the government offices in November while the talks were in operation.
This is the typical way of buying time during the financing struggles, but the measure failed in the Senate. The Democrats refused to support the Stopgap law because it did not include her priorities of the health funds. A democratic proposal with the restoration of the health benefit was defeated by the Republicans of the Senate.
The democratic proposal would extend extended health insurance grants, which should expire after the end of the year, as well as the reverse Medicaid cuts that were put into force in the major tax benefits of the Republicans and the beginning of this year.
The Republicans said that the Democrats’ demands to reverse the changes from Medicaid were a non -fiery, but they also said that there is time to address the problem of health insurance subsidies in the coming months.
The congress was sent home in the middle of the logjam, and the house called the meeting of the next week. But in a letter to colleagues, Jeffries summarized the house democrats back to work on Monday evening when the senators are also supposed to resume their session – days before the financing period.
