Tonight on PBS News weekend, President Trump and top congressional leaders are set to meet in the Oval Office trying to avert a government shutdown that could result in even more mass federal worker layoffs.

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Good evening. I'm John Yang. The battle lines are drawn for tomorrow's high-stakes Oval Office

meeting between President Trump and bipartisan congressional leaders one day before the deadline

to avert a government shutdown. Faring separately on NBC's Meet the Press, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and minority leader Chuck Schumer each said the other would be to blame for a shutdown.

I think there are potentially a path forward. We have to see where it goes, but we can't do it while the American people are being held hostage by the Democrats in a government shutdown.

We need a serious negotiation. Now, if the president at this meeting is going to rant and just yell at Democrats

and talk about all his alleged grievances and say this, that, and the other thing,

we won't get anything done.

Republicans want a short-term spending bill without any other provisions,

while Democrats say the price of their support is restoring Medicaid cuts and extending

subsidies that help low and middle income earners buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Adding to the uncertainty, our administration plans to use a shutdown to fire more federal workers.

Eric Katz covers federal agencies for the online publication government executive.

Eric, tell us about these plans to use this shutdown to fire more federal workers.

The White House, through its budget office, put out guidance this past week, advising agencies that they should develop plans to, instead of having the normal furloughs of, you know,

employees that are sent home only until the shutdown ends, they would instead be sent home permanently.

They would lose their jobs. The White House said the agencies should focus on any federal employee

who doesn't receive special funding for their job,

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