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US government on brink of first shutdown in almost seven years amid partisan standoff in Congress
['Mary Clare Jalonick', 'Lisa Mascaro', 'Stephen Groves', 'Associated Press']
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“It’s now in the president’s hands,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday after a meeting with Trump at the White House that yielded little apparent progress.
Schumer said after the closed-door meeting that they had “had candid, frank discussions” with Trump about health care.
Hours later, Trump posted a fake video of Schumer and Jeffries taken from footage of their real press conference outside of the White House after the meeting.
“We are not going to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of everyday Americans," Jeffries said.
In its instructions to agencies, the White House has suggested that a shutdown could lead to broad layoffs across the government.