It's President Trump and top congressional leaders yesterday, failing to reach an agreement to avoid a government shutdown during a private meeting held at the White House on Monday.

After that meeting, Republican lawmakers pinned the blame on Democrats with Vice President J.D. Vance predicting a shutdown this week.

We have disagreements about tax policy, but you don't shut that government down.

We have disagreements about health care policy, but you don't shut the government down. You don't use your policy disagreements

as leverage to not pay our troops, to not have essential services of government actually function.

You don't say the fact that you disagree about a particular tax provision is an excuse

for shutting down to the people's government and all the essential services that come along with it. So if they want to talk about how to fix American health care policy, let's do it. The Speaker would love to do it. The Senate Majority Leader would love to do it. Let's work on it together. But let's do it in the context of an open government that's providing essential services to the American people. That's all that we're proposing to do.

And the fact that they refuse to do that shows how unreasonable their position is.

I think we're headed to do a shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing.

I hope they change their mind, but we're going to see it.

Meanwhile, the top Democrats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and minority leader Chuck Schumer say they

reiterated their focus on advancing health care policy goals.

Democrats are fighting to protect the health care of the American people. And we are not going

to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of everyday Americans.

And when we talked to him about the other issues, he was not aware that Americans would pay so many Americans,

tens of millions of Americans would pay huge increases in their health care, in their health care bills because of the ACA expiring in December.

And he was not aware that the real effect of that starts October 1st, not December 31st.

So it seemed from his body language and some of the things he said that he was not aware of the ramifications of the detritus, the hard, you know, the bad, bad implications on health care for Americans.

Now, senators returned to Washington yesterday with no clear plan while the House remains

out of session. Funding set to run out at 12.01 a.m. Wednesday, unless Trump and leaders on the Hill

can reach an 11th hour agreement, there was a lot to unpack from the meeting yesterday, but I thought

the entire dynamic changed after everyone had left

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