Benjamin Weiss

WASHINGTON (CN) — As the country braces for a possible government shutdown, Democratic leaders in Congress said Monday they were holding firm in their efforts to extract concessions from Republicans and President Donald Trump in a proposed short-term funding bill.

And as Democrats prepared to meet with the president for eleventh-hour negotiations, they signaled that they would not be moved by assurances from the White House in exchange for their support on such a budget stopgap.

Lawmakers have a little more than one day to hammer out a path forward on the federal budget. The fiscal year, extended since March on a similar spending patch commonly referred to as a continuing resolution, is set to expire at midnight Wednesday. Without a deal, funding for government programs w

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