{"id":2503113,"date":"2025-10-25T22:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-open-to-meeting-with-jeffries-schumer-over-shutdown-deadlock\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:26:22","slug":"trump-open-to-meeting-with-jeffries-schumer-over-shutdown-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-open-to-meeting-with-jeffries-schumer-over-shutdown-deadlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump open to meeting with Jeffries, Schumer over shutdown deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftrump-open-to-meeting-with-jeffries-schumer-over-shutdown-deadlock%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=2503113&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>President Donald Trump has expressed willingness to meet with Democratic leaders House Minority Leader Hakeem jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to resolve the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >ongoing government shutdown<\/a>. When asked if he would sit down with them after his trip to Asia, Trump responded affirmatively, urging democrats to agree to reopen the government so negotiations can begin. He criticized Obamacare, which is central to the dispute, blaming Democrats for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breitbart-business-digest-chinas-latest-covid-lockdown-could-determine-the-feds-interest-rate-target\/\" title=\"Breitbart Business Digest: China\u2019s Latest COVID Lockdown Could Determine the Fed&#039;s Interest Rate Target\">prolonged shutdown<\/a> and calling them &#8220;lost souls.&#8221; Trump had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-group-plans-third-reconstruction-push\/\" title=\"Soros-Backed Group Plans \u2018Third Reconstruction\u2019 Push\">previously met<\/a> with Jeffries and Schumer just before the shutdown began but the talks were unsuccessful. As the shutdown marks its 25th day, Trump is traveling to Malaysia for the ASEAN Summit. Democrats, including Schumer, have criticized Trump for leaving Washington during the crisis, accusing him of avoiding obligation.  <\/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\">Trump open to meeting with Jeffries, Schumer over shutdown deadlock<\/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_2381565\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> signaled he is open to meeting with Democratic leadership in Congress as the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/government-shutdown\">government shutdown<\/a> continues with no end in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1982238474234220643\">asked<\/a> by a reporter on Saturday night whether he would &ldquo;sit down&rdquo; with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over the shutdown impasse after his trip to Asia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3864295\/emir-of-qatar-trump-air-force-one-asia-trip\/\">Emir of Qatar joins Trump on Air Force One during trip to Asia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3864274\/trump-new-deadline-hamas-return-bodies-dead-hostages\/\">Trump hints at new deadline for Hamas to return bodies of dead hostages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3864238\/trump-increases-tariff-canada-reagan-ad-re-airs\/\">Trump increases tariff on Canada after Reagan ad re-airs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I would, I&rsquo;d be willing to,&rdquo; Trump responded. &ldquo;I would&rsquo;ve now, too. You know, I left, I said, &lsquo;Come on over, just put the government back.&rsquo; All they have to do is say &lsquo;yes&rsquo; and it&rsquo;s over, and we start, and then we go into negotiation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He continued by bashing Obamacare, expiring subsidies of which are at the heart of the shutdown debate.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, Obamacare has been terrible. We can make it better. I&rsquo;m all for that &mdash; but they&rsquo;re not,&rdquo; Trump said before pinning the blame for the lingering shutdown on the Democrats. &ldquo;This is purely Democrat. They&rsquo;re doing some really bad things. I think they&rsquo;re lost souls.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump previously met with Jeffries and Schumer at the end of September just before government funding was set to expire. It was ultimately unsuccessful, and the government shut down the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3831702\/trump-2028-hats-leadership-meeting-jeffries-schumer\/\">trolled<\/a> the Democratic leaders afterward, posting photos of the two at the meeting with &ldquo;Trump 2028&rdquo; hats in front of them to Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the government shutdown has entered its 25th day, and Trump will be out of Washington for at least a week, as he is headed to Malaysia for the ASEAN Summit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3863496\/shutdown-fight-deepens-thune-chilly-relationship-schumer\/\">THUNE&rsquo;S CHILLY RELATIONSHIP WITH SCHUMER IN DEEP FREEZE THANKS TO SHUTDOWN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democratic leadership have seized on the trip to claim Trump and Republicans are &ldquo;skipping town.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Americans deserve a government that works as hard as they do &mdash; not a president that flies out of town and away from responsibility at the time they need one most,&rdquo; Schumer said in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1982200080762282014\">statement<\/a> earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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>Trump willing to meet Jeffries, Schumer amid shutdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2503114,"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\/10\/trump-schumer-jeffries-meeting-speculation.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[39629,50470,4411,3634],"class_list":["post-2503113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-government-shutdown","tag-jeffries-2","tag-schumer","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-schumer-jeffries-meeting-speculation.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503113","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\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503117,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503113\/revisions\/2503117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}