Shortly after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries claimed victory in a joint statement for securing the meeting on Tuesday morning, the president posted on his social media platform that he was calling it off. House approves stopgap spending bill but health care fight threatens a shutdown House Republicans are pushing a bill funding government agencies through November 21, but Democrats say without a plan to renew expiring health care subsidies they will oppose it. “There are consequences to losing Elections but, based on their letter to me, the Democrats haven’t figured that out yet,” Trump wrote. House leaders cancelled planned votes for next Monday and Tuesday and the chamber isn’t scheduled to return until late next week. GOP leaders insist Democrats would bear the blame if there is any interruption in funding, and have dubbed the dynamic “the Schumer shutdown.”