US President Donald Trump will meet with congressional leaders on Monday for crunch talks as the threat of a costly government shutdown within days looms over Washington.
Trump will host leaders from both parties at the White House after cancelling a meeting earlier this week with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives.
The federal government will run out of funding, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed and many public services shuttered, unless lawmakers can strike an agreement to keep the government open by a Tuesday 11.59pm deadline. Republicans need at least seven Democratic votes in the Senate to pass their stop-gap bill to keep funding going until November 20.
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