President Trump will meet with congressional leaders on Monday, just ahead of an Oct. 1 deadline for lawmakers to reach an agreement on a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown, multiple sources familiar with the plans told CBS News Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr. Trump will meet with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the sources said.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Mr. Trump\u00a0said that he had canceled a meeting<\/a>\u00a0with Schumer and Jeffries, calling their “demands” for the spending bill “unserious and ridiculous.”<\/p>\n In a joint statement Saturday, Schumer and Jeffries said that Mr. Trump had “once again agreed to a meeting in the Oval Office,” and adding that they were “resolute in our determination to avoid a government shutdown.”<\/p>\n With the deadline fast approaching, Schumer called Thune on Friday and urged him to get Mr. Trump to meet, an aide to Schumer told CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n Punchbowl was first to report the meeting.<\/p>\n Lawmakers are facing a deadline of midnight Tuesday, when the 2026 fiscal year begins, to reach a deal on full-year spending bill, or a continuing resolution, which is a temporary stop-gap measure.<\/p>\n Last week, a Republican-backed short-term funding bill passed the House,\u00a0but failed in the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n Democrats have pushed for the bill to include a permanent extension of tax credits for Americans who are enrolled in health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, as well as a roll back of\u00a0Medicaid cuts<\/a>\u00a0that were in the recently passed “big, beautiful bill.”\u00a0<\/p>\n If\u00a0a shutdown were to take effect<\/a>, it would impact what are considered non-essential government programs, and it would also likely halt the pay of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.<\/p>\n In a move that appeared to raise the stakes for a deal, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget\u00a0sent a memo to federal agencies<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday telling them to prepare layoff plans in the event of a shutdown.<\/p>\n The memo, obtained by CBS News, told agencies to consider reduction-in-force notices \u2014 a federal term for layoffs \u2014 for employees in programs that receive discretionary funding that stops on Oct. 1, or that don’t have any alternative sources of funding.<\/p>\n “Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown, and we must continue our planning efforts in the event Democrats decide to shut down the government,” the memo read.<\/p>\n Democratic leaders\u00a0blasted the memo<\/a>, with Schumer calling it “an attempt at intimidation.”<\/p>\n Aaron Navarro<\/a>, <\/p>\n