Overview

• Congressional leaders departed an Oval Office session with President Trump without a deal, making a funding lapse at the fiscal-year deadline highly likely.
• Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance and Sen. John Thune, are pushing a short-term clean continuing resolution through Nov. 21, but it was rejected once in the House and faces a 60‑vote threshold in the Senate.
• Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries insist any stopgap include healthcare protections such as Obamacare subsidies and restored Medicaid funding, a stance that has stalled negotiations.
• Trump intensified tensions by posting an apparently AI-generated video mocking Jeffries and Schumer and by telling agencies to ready plans for mass federal layoffs, calling firings “inevitable” if a shutdown hits.
• A closure would furlough more than 800,000 workers, halt BLS jobs and inflation reports, delay inspections including aviation maintenance, and risk market volatility, with economists warning the economy is more vulnerable than in 2019.