Overview

• The Senate rejected both a House-passed seven-week Republican stopgap and a Democratic alternative, leaving funding to lapse without a new agreement.
• The White House says President Trump will meet this week with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to discuss government funding.
• House Republicans advanced a continuing resolution to keep spending at current levels through roughly Nov. 21 with about $30 million for lawmaker security, but the measure failed to clear the Senate.
• Democrats are withholding votes unless a short-term deal includes extending expiring Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, reversing recent Medicaid cuts, and preventing or undoing White House rescissions.
• Negotiations face steep constraints: the Senate requires 60 votes with Republicans holding 53 seats, senators return Sept. 29 and the House not until Oct. 1, and only Sen. John Fetterman broke with Democrats to back the GOP bill.