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The US is hurtling towards a government shutdown on Tuesday night, and there appears to be little appetite on either side of the partisan divide to avoid it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A last-ditch meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders in Congress made little progress. If anything, both sides have been digging deeper into their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing,” Vice President JD Vance told reporters after the meeting at the White House. “You don’t put a gun to the American people’s head and say, ‘Unless you do exactly what Senate and House Democrats want you to do, we’re going to shut down your government’.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer said there were still “very large differences” between his party and the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one sounded optimistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans want a short-term extension of current spending levels \u2013 essentially kicking the legislative can a bit farther down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They’re happy with the way things are going, particularly since the Trump administration has been implementing spending cuts on its own, without the help of congressional budget-setters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democrats want that practice to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s the point, they wonder, with negotiating spending-level agreements if Trump will just ignore them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They also want a firm agreement to renew the government health-insurance subsidies for low-income individuals that expire at the end of the year \u2013 something Republicans have been reluctant to do so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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