Overview

• Funding for most agencies expires at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, and Trump is meeting Schumer, Jeffries, Thune and Johnson at the White House on Monday in a last-ditch bid to avoid a shutdown.
• Republicans are pushing a short, clean continuing resolution to extend current funding through about Nov. 21, saying broader policy fights should be handled later.
• Senate Democrats say they will not support a stopgap that omits an extension of Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and a rollback of recent Medicaid cuts.
• Even with Republicans controlling both chambers and the presidency, the 60-vote threshold in the Senate allows Democrats to block a clean funding bill.
• The White House has directed agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans alongside typical furloughs, and workers — including military personnel — would go unpaid during any lapse while essential services continue.