Overview

• The Oval Office session will bring Trump together with Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
• Funding for most federal agencies lapses after midnight Tuesday, triggering a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday absent a deal.
• Senate Democrats are withholding the votes needed to advance a stopgap unless it includes an ACA subsidy extension and a rollback of recent Medicaid cuts.
• Republican leaders are pressing for a largely clean, seven-week continuing resolution and say policy issues should be negotiated separately.
• The White House budget office instructed agencies to prepare for potential layoffs if funding stops, underscoring the stakes of the standoff.