Overview

• A Monday White House meeting with President Trump and congressional leaders produced no agreement hours before the funding deadline.
• The Republican-led House approved a short-term bill running to November 21, but Senate passage needs 60 votes and GOP Senator Rand Paul has signaled opposition.
• The central dispute is health care, with Democrats demanding extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies and reversal of Medicaid cuts exceeding $1 trillion, while Republicans insist those changes be handled separately.
• Federal agencies activated contingency plans, and the Labor Department said the Bureau of Labor Statistics would suspend the September jobs report and other releases during a shutdown.
• Political tensions intensified as Trump said he was unconcerned and blamed Democrats, threatened mass firings, and posted an AI-generated mocking video, while Vice President J. D. Vance deemed some Democratic ideas reasonable but rejected using a shutdown threat.