WASHINGTON — Democrats have lost faith in a bipartisan agreement to fund the government ahead of next week’s deadline, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., says. But that’s Democrats’ own fault, Republicans will argue.

After a meeting between President Donald Trump and top congressional leaders was canceled this week, trust is wearing thin between the two parties in Congress as the government shutdown deadline looms. Democrats and Republicans have continued to point their fingers at the other while seemingly making no effort to schedule negotiations.

“We will work together, sit down, meet anytime, anyplace, with anyone, in order to avoid a Republican-caused government shutdown and in order to decisively address the Republican health care crisis that is devastating the peopl

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