After canceling an earlier meeting, President Trump is planning to meet with a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders on Monday. Congress must pass or extend a spending bill before Oct. 1 to prevent a shutdown.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader John Thune are digging in ahead of this week’s deadline to keep the government open, showing little evidence of budging even as both sides have agreed to meet with President Donald Trump at

Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown

President Donald Trump will meet Monday with the top four congressional leaders in a bid to avert a potential government shutdown.

The Office of Management and Budget says in a memo that agencies should prepare reduction-in-force plans to accompany furloughs if a spending bill isn't passed next week.

R epublican leaders in both chambers are holding the line and saying they are not ceding to Democratic demands in order to pass funding for the government, heightening the imminent threat of a shutdown this week. It comes as congressional leaders prepare to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.

Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown,” the Office of Management and Budget said in the memo, which the White House provided.

The White House is telling agencies to prepare large-scale firings of federal workers if the government shuts down next week.

A memo from the White House budget office telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings should the government shut down signaled a dramatic escalation in a funding staredown with fewer potential off-ramps as next week’s deadline nears.

If the government isn't funded by next week, mass layoffs in federal agencies could occur, according to a White House office memo.