White House tells federal agencies to prepare for job cuts in shutdown

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31% : Democratic lawmakers had planned to meet with Trump on Thursday, but the president canceled the talks via social media, saying Democrats must drop their demands for renewing health care subsidies and ending Medicaid cuts before he'll agree to in-person discussions.
13% : Earlier Wednesday, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said that the Trump administration is already violating federal spending laws outside of a shutdown and one of the things Democrats are fighting for is language in a stopgap to limit the president's powers to do so. "Donald Trump continues to make up reasons to exercise emergency powers that don't exist, and he has done this outside of the context of a government shutdown," Jeffries said in a roundtable with Bloomberg editors and reporters.

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