President Donald Trump will meet with Republicans and Democrats on Monday in a desperate bid to avoid a complete government shutdown.

Trump needs to sign a Congress approved government funding legislation by Tuesday night or he faces shuttering offices and putting federal staff on furlough.

Republicans are daring Democrats to vote against legislation that would keep government funding mostly at current levels, but Democrats are using one of their few points of leverage to demand Congress take up legislation to extend health care benefits.

JD Vance said the ‘Democrats had a gun to the head of the American people’.

He told reporters: ‘If you look at the original thing they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package basically saying to the American people, we want

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