Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries talk with reporters following their meeting with President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the government funding crisis, at the Capitol on Monday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Top Democrats emerged from a White House meeting believing that President Donald Trump may eventually cut a deal on their biggest demand — even if it first requires shutting down the government to get it.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Trump expressed openness to extending key enhanced Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, characterizing the president as keenly interested in averting sudden price hikes for roughly 20 million enrollees.

“We laid out to the president some of the con

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