With just over 24 hours before the government is set to shutdown, Donald Trump and congressional leaders from both parties emerged from a high-stakes White House meeting on Monday with no agreement, setting the stage for large swaths of the federal government to close after midnight Wednesday.

The impasse came after closed-door talks between the four top congressional leaders and Trump in the Oval Office, where lawmakers appeared to trade blame but make little progress towards a deal. “There are still large differences between us,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters after the meeting, claiming that Republicans refused to engage on their core demands around health care and restoring previous funding cuts.

“Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input,” he added, taking aim at a House-passed seven-week stopgap funding bill that Senate Democrats rejected last week. “That is never how we’ve done this before.”

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    Welcome to life in America. Where intelligence and common sense aren’t so common. People will literally kill you so they can happily vote against their own interests.

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      Truth.

      Living in Canada is like having crazy downstairs neighbours but for some reason one of our roommates keeps inviting them upstairs.

      I have not been to the USA in a decade. Literally the only reason I’ll ever, ever, return is to visit Casa Bonita in Colorado… ideally on a layover.

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        Omg, I tried to get in there with almost a month planning ahead. NOPE.

        You may need to find a local with whatever lifetime gold membership they sold. Bribe them to take you or something.

        I had no idea it was so difficult to get in there. I signed up for the email where they will open a few times here and there, but as soon as the mail is sent, the reservations are gobbled up by the bots.

        I wish you all the luck.

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          It’s gonna be 3 years at least. I doubt I’d be getting the full experience visiting during the tariffs anyways.

          thx for the heads up!