President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he is canceling his meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Trump wrote in a on social media platform Truth Social that the Democrats are unrealistic in their negotiations to fund the government and avoid a shutdown.
“After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” the president said.
Trump had reportedly agreed to the Democrats’ Saturday demand to negotiate a bill that would fund the government until Oct. 31, but he said Tuesday the meeting will only take place if Leaders Jeffrey and Schumer agree to his requests and “get serious about the future of our Nation.”
The House Democrat wrote in an X that “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
“Donald Trump just cancelled a high stakes meeting in the Oval Office with myself and Leader Schumer. The extremists want to shut down the government because they are unwilling to address the Republican healthcare crisis that is devastating America,” Leader Jeffries said.
Sen. Schumers added in his own directed at Trump that, “When you’re finished ranting, we can sit down and discuss health care.”
The Democrats’ demands, which they communicated in a to the president, included addressing Republican healthcare policies. Leaders Jeffries and Schumer accused the GOP of trying to “gut” the public’s care and warned that the funding bill passed by House Republicans will result in “devastating” Medicaid and Medicare cuts; “skyrocketing” premiums, co-pays and deductibles; “unprecedented attacks” on medical research; and the forced closure of hospitals and other health clinics.
“With the September 30th deadline fast approaching, Republicans will bear responsibility for another painful government shutdown because of the refusal of GOP congressional leadership to even talk with Democrats,” the leaders said. “As a result, it is now your obligation to meet with us directly to reach an agreement to keep the government open and address the Republican healthcare crisis.”
Trump said congressional Democrats seem to have “totally lost their way.”
“They obviously have no idea what it means to put America First or to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! All Congressional Democrats want to do is enact Radical Left Policies that nobody voted for – High Taxes, Open Borders, No Consequences for Violent Criminals, Men in Women’s Sports, Taxpayer funded ‘TRANSGENDER’ surgery, and much more,” the president claimed. “Few people voted for COMMON SENSE, and that’s what the Republicans and your President, ‘DONALD J. TRUMP,’ stand for.”
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