The federal government is heading toward a shutdown one week from now with no potential solution in sight.

President Trump canceled a planned meeting with Democratic congressional leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries,

saying what they're asking for in negotiations is unsurious and ridiculous.

Senator Schumer joins us now from New York.

It's good to see you, sir.

So why do you think President Trump canceled this meeting just a day after you announced

it?

And is there a path forward absent direct negotiation with him?

Well, we hope there's a path forward to avoid this Trump shutdown.

We've been trying for a long time to sit down first with the Republican

leaders, Speaker Johnson and John Thune, and they wouldn't sit down with us, and we wondered why.

And then it came out clearly two weeks ago. Trump said we don't need the Democrats. We can do it

on our own. Now, obviously,

he doesn't know his math. You need 60 votes in the Senate. They're only 53 Republicans.

So, of course, he should be sitting down. And that's what, you know, he is derelict in his duty

as president. He should be sitting down with us. He said he would. Jeffries and I requested that we sit down together.

They called us up and said Thursday, 3 o'clock, and then yesterday he canceled it, and

he said, yes, he said our proposals were ridiculous and radical.

Well, they're not radical at all.

To prevent the average American who was on ACA's health care bill from going up $5,000 a year is not radical.

To try to keep so many rural hospitals which are in danger of closing is not radical.

These are things the American people are totally on our side.

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