Posted on 09/23/2025 8:27:09 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with top congressional Democrats on Tuesday over "unserious and ridiculous demands" as the deadline to fund the government fast approaches.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., were set to meet with Trump on Thursday to discuss a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown before the Sept. 30 deadline.
Lawmakers are still away from Washington, D.C., this week to observe the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Senate is expected to return on Sept. 29. Meanwhile, the House is expected to be out until the deadline passes.
But Trump nixed the meeting in a lengthy post on his social media platform Truth Social, where he blasted the duo for pushing "radical Left policies that nobody voted for."
"I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive," Trump said.
The now canceled meeting with Trump came on the heels of a letter from Schumer and Jeffries sent over that weekend where the top congressional Democrats laid the possibility of a shutdown on his and Republicans’ feet.
They argued that the Trump-backed short-term extension was "dirty," which would mean it had partisan policy riders or spending attached to it, and panned it for continuing "the Republican assault on healthcare," ignoring expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies, and possibly leading to the closure of hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the country.
"With the September 30th deadline fast approaching, Republicans will bear responsibility for another painful government shutdown because of the refusal of GOP congressional leadership to even talk with Democrats," they wrote at the time.
But Trump argued that their bill would allow for the nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in his "big, beautiful bill" to be repealed ...
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And once again, the Democrats have tossed regular order out the window. Nothing like extortion to advance one’s agenda.
Trump was NEVER going to give them an ounce of publicity or satisfaction by a face to face meeting.
Captain Obvious to the rescue ...
I guess Schumer and Jeffries can ride with us, but they have to go to the back of the bus... :)
That meeting would be like negotiating with alligators that are about to eat you.
Try to imagine how much Trump after surviving two assasination attempts loathes Schumer, Jeffries and their ilk.
Shummer and Jeffries are a joke that everone is laughing at!
These bastids were looking for a photo op and to get their sick demands in the spotlight while chastising Trump.
IOW, they continue to want illegals to get free healthcare on the backs of American taxpayers.
This was nothing but part of MSM/Rat effort to hang the Shutdown on Trump if it comes to that.
Guess that is why I am not in politics, I don’t see how he would ever take a meeting with people who say the vile (and false) things they say about him on a daily basis. I would eventually lose my manners and make a comment or two to their face.
Because both of these assclowns are unserious and ridiculous. Any wonder NYC is about to get a commie mare?
Make sure these 2 idiots get ALL THE BLAME
My bet would be that Trump accepted the meeting only so that he could cancel it.
So say Shutdown Schumer gets his way this time and the gov't goes dark. Who do the LIV remember as pounding the shutdown drums?
Is it just me, or does this sentence strike you as a bald-faced lie?
Why do congress critters had to leave work to observe Jewish holidays?
An honest report would be, "Lawmakers are still away from Washington, D.C., this week."
Let the Democrats OWN the government shutdown.
I am fine with it.
The shutdown will give Trump emergency funding powers.
Interesting. Trump thinks he had more of a chance making a reasonable deal with Putin then he does with Democrats.
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