JD VANCE: The American government “ was probably heading towards a ” closure

The Republican leaders and Democrats of the Congress left a meeting with President Donald Trump without agreement to avoid a closure of the government when approaching the deadline.

The leaders met Trump on Monday for about an hour to negotiate a path to follow to avoid a partial closure of the government, but it did not seem that none of the parties was willing to move from their position.

Vice-president JD Vance said after the meeting: “I think we are going to a closure because the Democrats will not do the right thing. I hope they change their mind.”

“If you look at the original they have done with this negotiation, it was an expenditure package of $ 1.5 billion, essentially claiming that the American people wanted to give massive sums, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal foreigners for their health care, while the Americans find it difficult to pay their health bills,” said Vance. “It was their initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd.”

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Vice-President JD Vance, President Mike Johnson, R-La., The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., and the director of management and the director of the RUSS Budget Vought spoke to journalists after the Congress leaders met President Donald Trump on September 29, 2025. (Win McNamee / Getty images)

The Democrats, however, rejected the assertions that they seek to save health care for anyone except the American people.

“There has been a frank and direct discussion with the President of the United States and Republican leaders. But significant and significant differences remain,” said Jeffries. “Democrats are fighting to protect the health care of the American people, and we are not going to support a partisan bill for republican spending which continues to empty everyday health care in America, the end.”

Congress has until midnight on October 1 to adopt a short -term financing extension or continuous resolution (CR), to avoid a partial closure of the government. The Chamber has already adopted an extension of financing, but the bill was blocked in the Senate earlier this month.

The Republicans and the White House want to go ahead with their “clean” and short-term financing extension until November 21, while the Democrats offered a counter-proposition which includes a permanent extension of the expired Obamacare tax credits and other articles of the list of wishes which are a bridge too far for the GOP.

Vance appeared alongside President Mike Johnson, R-La., The head of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D., and the Director of the Management and Budget Office (OMB), Russ Vought, in a demonstration of the republican unit after the meeting, but clearly indicated that the two parties are still far.

Thune, brandishing a copy of the extension of funding, brought the accusation of Jeffries and Schumer that the bill was supported by nature.

The Congress Republicans argue that the GOP of the Chamber is all that the Democrats pushed when they controlled the Senate: a “clean” extension of November 21 without the partisan horsemen or expenses, with the exception of millions of expenses for new expenses for increased security for legislators.

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The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber, DN.Y., on the left, hold a press conference on the GOP reconciliation bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)

“For me, this is purely a hostage -taking exercise on the part of the Democrats,” said Thune. “We are ready to sit down and work with them on some of the problems they want to talk about, whether it is an extension of premium tax credits, with reforms, we are happy to have this conversation. But at present, it is a diversion.”

Neither Schumer nor Jeffries answered questions after their comments, but seemed slightly more optimistic than their GOP counterparts after the end of the meeting.

“I think that for the first time, the president heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartite bill,” said Schumer. “Their bill does not have an iota of democratic contribution. This is never how we did this before.”

Vance said that it was “very skeptical” that it was the first time that Trump has heard the question and said that there was a bipartite way to follow on health care – but has made the Democrats push to include an extension of the bill on the bill.

“We want to work through the aisle to ensure that people have access to good health care,” he said, but added: “We are not going to let the Democrats close the government and take a hostage unless we give them everything they want. This is not how the people of the people have ever worked.”

The meeting at the Oval Office comes after Trump canceled a Confab previously scheduled last week with simply Schumer and Jeffries. At the time, the president reprimanded against their requests on his social media platform Truth Social and argued that the Democrats of the Congress pushed “radical policies for which no one voted” in their counter-CR.

President Donald Trump speaks during a hearing of the Religious Freedom Commission at the Bible Museum on Monday, September 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)

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Democrats’ requests are an extension of subsidies at the expiration of the affordable care law, although their counter-proposition has also included a language to repeal the health care section of the “Big and Beautiful Bill” of the GOP and an NPR and PBS financing poster.

The Senate Republicans argued that the desires of the Democrats are not put into service, and Thune publicly declared that the Republicans would be willing to have discussions on the grants to the ACA, which are fixed at sunset at the end of this year, after funding from the government.

Schumer insisted that the Democrats had to immediately address a press conference on Capitol Hill after the meeting.

“We think that when they say later, they never want to say. We must do it now, first because of the synchronization problem and secondly, because this is now the moment when we can do it,” he said.

The White House also takes advantage of the threat of mass dismissals if the firm government which goes beyond the standard leave of non-essential employees. However, Schumer and the Democrats of the Senate have not completed.

The Senate is expected to vote on the bill on Tuesday.