WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump today scrapped a meeting with top congressional Democratic leaders to discuss government funding, raising the risk of a partial government shutdown beginning next week.

Top congressional Democrats and the Republican president postured to try to pin blame on each other for a potential shutdown, which would interfere with a wide range of federal services and likely furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

“I have decided that no meeting with their congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth social media site.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House of Representatives Democratic Leader Jeffries earlier today had said Trump had agreed to meet this week at the White House, before government fu

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