Trump expresses doubts about discussions with DEM leaders as the financing deadline is approaching

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would meet the best Democrats in Congress before the deadline for financing the imminent government, but said he didn’t believe it would be fine.

The legislators of the Chamber and the Senate are currently distant from Washington, DC, in their respective districts and states, but the deadline of September 30 to prevent a partial closure of the government will only be a few weeks to a few weeks on their return after the Labor Day.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event at Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025 in Washington. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

And there is a brewing tension between the Republicans and the Democrats on the way the fight for the financing of the government will shake.

Trump, at a press conference where he announced a list of Kennedy Center winners, said that he would meet the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., and the minority chief of the Hakeem Jeffries room, DN.Y., before the deadline.

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

“I don’t think anyone is able to conclude an agreement with these people,” he continued. “They got crazy.”

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The head of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer at a press conference in the Capitol on June 3, 2025. (APO photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

Fox News Digital contacted Schumer and Jeffries to comment but did not immediately hear.

The best Democrat in the Senate, however, reacted to Trump’s feeling on X.

“President Trump calls for it a” waste of time “to meet-I call him a waste of leadership for Trump not to have the intention of reducing costs for workers or stopping health care, veterans and social security,” he said.

Legislators must adopt the dozen expenditure invoices necessary to finance the government to avoid a partial closure, but this process, known as regular order, has not taken place for decades.

While the leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune.

However, all CR must adopt the Democrats of the Senate, since the legislation must go through the threshold of 60 votes in the upper chamber.

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The chief of the minority Hakeem Jeffries and the representative Nancy Pelosi speak on the ground on January 6, 2023. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

And the Democrats of Congress have a bitter taste in their mouths after the Republicans struck the Griffon package of $ 9 billion from Trump, which included deep cuts at NPR, PBS and foreign help. They warned that additional attempts to recover the funding approved by the Congress on a partisan basis could condemn the government’s financing negotiations.

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Before the vote to adopt three draft spending law in the Senate, which included funding for military construction and veterans, agriculture and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Legislative Branch, the Congress Democrats promised to play the ball – as long as the creditor process was biparti.

“We all want to continue a bipartite process of bicameral credits,” said Schumer at the time. “This is how it has always been done successfully, and we think that, however, the Republicans make it extremely difficult to do so.”

Earlier this year, Schumer briefly flirted with a closure of the government. However, he finally gave up and voted with the Republicans to keep the lights on in Washington and, in doing so, sparked a storm of fire in his own party on his capacity as leader of the Democratic Caucus of the Senate.