Overview

• Trump scrapped a planned meeting with Democratic leaders, calling their demands unreasonable, a move that lawmakers and aides say heightens the odds of a partial shutdown at the Sept. 30/Oct. 1 deadline.
• Republican leaders push a seven‑week “clean” continuing resolution, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he is open to discussing ACA policy but not as part of the stopgap.
• The House passed the GOP stopgap on a party‑line vote, and the Senate rejected that bill and a Democratic alternative; House leaders also canceled early‑week votes ahead of the deadline.
• Nonpartisan analyses cited by reporters warn that letting enhanced ACA subsidies lapse could raise average premiums by about 75% and leave millions more uninsured, with insurer rate deadlines passed and open enrollment starting Nov. 1.
• Republicans signal they are prepared to use procedural and administrative levers in a shutdown, while some moderates float limited extensions of the subsidies and Sen. Joni Ernst seeks a fresh CBO estimate of shutdown costs.