Overview

• President Trump scheduled an Oval Office meeting Monday with Chuck Schumer, John Thune, Mike Johnson, and Hakeem Jeffries to discuss ways to stave off a shutdown at midnight Tuesday.
• Rep. Mark Alford said the session should be live and used to belittle Democratic leaders, invoking how Trump and allies treated Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this year.
• Alford framed Democrats’ proposals as unreasonable and called for public humiliation as a tactic, a stance he aired in a NewsNation interview.
• Democratic leaders say they are leveraging the deadline to push legislation that would extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies and restore Medicaid funding.
• Trump and Republican leaders favor a clean short-term funding bill, and Trump has said he expects a shutdown this week, while reporters note GOP claims about free health care for undocumented immigrants are false and were echoed by Alford.