{"id":2490756,"date":"2025-09-24T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-barrels-toward-shutdown-as-trump-shuns-radical-democrats\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:28:41","slug":"congress-barrels-toward-shutdown-as-trump-shuns-radical-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-barrels-toward-shutdown-as-trump-shuns-radical-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress barrels toward shutdown as Trump shuns &#8216;radical&#8217; Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-barrels-toward-shutdown-as-trump-shuns-radical-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2490756&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the escalating standoff between Democrats and former President Donald Trump over the impending federal government shutdown expected on October 1. With only six days before government funding expires, both sides are demanding that the other pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-covid-and-monkeypox-biden-asks-congress-for-another-47-billion-to-address-critical-needs-for-the-american-people\/\" title=\"Ukraine, COVID, And Monkeypox: Biden Asks ... For Another  Billion To Address \u2018Critical Needs For The American People\u2019\">short-term spending bill<\/a> to keep the government funded until November 21. Democrats emphasize the need for healthcare concessions, especially to protect Medicaid coverage, accusing Republicans of refusing to negotiate. Meanwhile, Republicans and Trump argue that Democrats, after losing the 2024 election, should comply with a clean continuing resolution without additional demands. <\/p>\n<p>Despite attempts at negotiation, including a canceled meeting between Trump and Democratic leaders, both parties remain entrenched. Democrats accuse Republicans of intentionally avoiding talks, while Republicans criticize Democrats for trying to attach &#8220;poison pills&#8221; to the funding bill. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stated Democrats are willing to work with anyone to avoid a shutdown but demand binding healthcare provisions. Speaker mike Johnson blamed Democrats for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-rules-bipartisan-senate-cr-dead-on-arrival-as-house-remains-at-standstill\/\" title=\"McCarthy declares bipartisan ... CR &#039;DOA&#039; as ... stays at im...e.\">holding government funding hostage<\/a> by insisting on spending increases and expanded healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights the political blame game expected should a shutdown occur, with Democrats predicting that voter frustration will fall on Republicans and Trump, who currently control the House and Senate.The situation remains unresolved as both parties maintain their positions, and Congress canceled votes on the last days before the funding deadline. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Democrats and Trump dig in on shutdown demands<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2238247\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Congress was no closer to a funding solution on Wednesday as party leaders refused to hold meetings,  increasing the likelihood of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government shutdown<\/a> on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>With six days until the federal government funding expires, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats<\/a> and President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> are demanding that the opposing party pass a short-term spending deal that will fund the government until Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3821371\/house-democrats-ad-gop-shutdown-obamacare-credits\/\">House Democrats&#8217; 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to prevent a shutdown. He stressed that Republicans need to come to the negotiating table on healthcare, which Democrats say is in a crisis as the Medicaid reforms in the &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; threaten coverage for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But, he said, &ldquo;an intentional decision was made by Republican leadership in the House and the Senate not to have a single conversation with Democrats. They&rsquo;re not even pretending as if they want to find common ground.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, who successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3815525\/house-passes-short-term-spending-deal-fate-uncertain-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">passed a seven-week continuing resolution<\/a> out of the House last Friday with little drama, argue Democrats want to add &ldquo;poison pills&rdquo; to legislation intended to allow appropriators to continue their work to pass all 12 bills to fund the government. Republicans have also pointed to the continuing resolution as extending spending levels that existed under former President Joe Biden, something Jeffries rebuffed during his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The spending deal hit a roadblock on Friday and died in the Senate, and lawmakers from both chambers of Congress went home without any plans for a deal. Trump agreed on Monday to meet with Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), but reversed course on Tuesday and canceled the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; the president wrote on Tuesday and <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115260622454907511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reshared<\/a> in a post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Trump said he&rsquo;d be willing to meet with Jeffries and Schumer &ldquo;if they get serious about the future of our Nation.&rdquo; He laid out demands in his &ldquo;letter&rdquo; to the leaders, asking Democrats to abandon &ldquo;radical left policies&rdquo; such as &ldquo;high taxes, open borders&hellip;and taxpayer-funded &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; surgery,&rdquo; which he said would &ldquo;lead to the destruction of America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To the Leaders of the Democrat Party, the ball is in your court,&rdquo; Trump added. &ldquo;I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things that our Country stands for.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats are making no move to concede, a move that some Democratic strategists argue is a way to appease their base, who want to see Democrats in Washington use what little political power they have to push back against the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen who will be blamed for a shutdown. If the government shuts down, historically, voters tend to point fingers at the party in power, as Jeffries predicted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The country has been lectured all year about how Republicans are in charge,&rdquo; the House minority leader said. &ldquo;If the government shuts down, it will shut down because Donald Trump and Republicans in the House and the Senate have made that decision to intentionally inflict pain on the American people. &hellip;They have no solution. Republicans have no path forward. There is no viable bill.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But this time around, as opposed to other spending deals, Republicans are mostly unified around the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >short-term continuing resolution<\/a> and are not causing any delays due to intra-party infighting. The GOP argues that Schumer is the one standing in the way of funding the government because the 60-vote Senate threshold will require seven Democrats to join Republicans to push the bill forward.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, however, say they won&rsquo;t throw their support behind a &ldquo;dirty&rdquo; and &ldquo;partisan&rdquo; bill &mdash; leaving the future uncertain as the parties stay at a stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what would get Democrats on board with a spending deal, Jeffries said any agreement related to the Obamacare tax credits or other healthcare priorities would need to be &ldquo;ironclad and in legislation,&rdquo; not a handshake or verbal agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have a very forward-looking, positive, and communicative relationship with Speaker Mike Johnson, but there&rsquo;s no trust that exists between House Democrats and House Republicans at this particular point in time, given the fact that they&rsquo;ve consistently tried to undermine bipartisan agreements that they themselves have reached,&rdquo; Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>The House canceled votes for Sept. 29 and 30, the last two days before the looming shutdown. Jeffries and the House Democratic caucus plan to hold an in-person meeting on Sept. 29, while Republicans have yet to announce whether they will remain in their districts or travel back to Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3820876\/republicans-push-legislation-eliminate-government-shutdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>REPUBLICANS PUSH LEGISLATION TO ELIMINATE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnson said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1970958497916314058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> to X shortly after Jeffries&rsquo;s press conference that Democrats only want to meet to &ldquo;repeat their demands that we include FREE healthcare to illegal aliens&hellip;and a MASSIVE $3.5 TRILLION spending HIKE in a simple 7-week funding bill.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They are holding government funding hostage,&rdquo; the speaker said. &ldquo;If Democrats fail to pass our clean, nonpartisan, 24-page CR to keep the government open, the American People will know where the blame lies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Trump stand firm as shutdown looms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2490757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25267723908656.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4402,3685,39629,3634],"class_list":["post-2490756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-government-shutdown","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25267723908656.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490760,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490756\/revisions\/2490760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}