As reported at Fox News, Vice President JD Vance said after the Republican and Democratic congressional leaders meeting that a government shutdown was likely stating, "Democrats won't do the right thing and I hope they change their mind."
Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left a meeting with President Donald Trump with no deal to avert a government shutdown as the deadline fast approaches.
Leaders met with Trump on Monday for roughly an hour to negotiate a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown, but it appeared neither side was willing to budge from their position.
Vice President JD Vance said after the meeting, "I think we're headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing. I hope they change their mind."
"If you look at the original they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package, basically saying the American people want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care, while Americans are struggling to pay their health care bills," Vance said. "That was their initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd."