Trump expressed doubts about negotiations with DEM leaders as funding deadline approaches

president Donald Trump He will meet with the highest Congressional Democrats ahead of the looming government funding deadline, but said he doesn’t believe it would be good.

House and Senate lawmakers are currently leaving Washington, D.C. in their respective districts and states, but the September 30 deadline is to prevent partial Government shutdown When you return after Labor Day, it will be only a few weeks away.

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There is a brewing tension between Republicans and Democrats on how the looming government funding battle will get out of the predicament.

Trump announced a place for the Kennedy Center winners at a press conference, saying he will meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerDN.Y. and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y. , before the deadline.

“But it’s almost a waste of time to meet because they never approved anything,” Trump added.

“I don’t believe anyone has the ability to make an agreement with these people,” he continued. “They went crazy.”

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at a press conference at the Capitol on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. ScottApplewhite)

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Legislators have to pass more than a dozen spending bills needed to avoid partial shutdowns for the government, but for decades the process has been called a regular order.

Senate Majority Leader John ThuneRs.D. made it clear that he wanted to pass the spending bill, and the Senate did indeed pass three financing measures, and before leaving town, Congress will likely turn to a short-term government funding extension called Continuing Solutions (CR).

But, given that legislation must pass the 60-batch threshold in the House of Lords, any CR must be convened with Senate Democrats.

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Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Nancy Pelosi talked on the floor on January 6, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)

and Congressional Democrats A painful smell left in his mouth after Republicans hit Trump’s $9 billion kickback package, including deep cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid. They warn that more attempts to withdraw congressional approved funds on a partisan basis may destiny to government fund negotiations.

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Before the vote, three Senate spending bills passed, including funding for military construction and veterans affairs, the Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the legislative branch, Congressional Democrats vowed that they would play — as long as the appropriation process is a scheduling process.

“We all want to pursue a bipartisan, two-color appropriation process,” Schumer said at the time. “That’s what has been done successfully and we believe Republicans make it very difficult to do so.”

Schumer briefly flirted with the government shutdown earlier this year. However, he eventually kept the Republican Party long in Washington and voted with Republicans, in the process, inspiring the fire of his ability to be the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus in his own party.