Trump to meet top leaders at White House to avert government shutdown

President Donald Trump will meet on Monday with the top four congressional leaders at the White House in a last-minute effort to avert a potential partial government shutdown that would begin at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday if funding is not extended. Attending will be House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, officials and the party leaders said.

The meeting comes after an earlier Oval Office session with Democratic leaders was canceled this week at the urging of Johnson and Thune, and amid a standoff over a short-term funding bill that passed the Republican-controlled House but lacks the 60 votes needed in the Senate. House Republicans approved a continuing resolution that would extend funding for seven weeks through Nov. 21, but several Senate Democrats have refused to back that measure without additional health care provisions.

Democrats are seeking an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that help low- and middle-income consumers purchase insurance and want to reverse cuts to Medicaid included in this year’s tax legislation. Republicans have described those...