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President Donald Trump, shortly after agreeing to a meeting with Democrat leaders in Congress about their looming threat to shut down the government by refusing to approve funding, has canceled that event.

He said he reviewed the demands from Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leaders in the Senate and House, and found them "unserious and ridiculous."

Congress must approve at least a stopgap funding mechanism or Democrats, after years of condemning shutdown threats as dangerous, are threatening to shut down the government if they don't get their way.

One of their demands is to cancel about a trillion dollars in savings for American taxpayers established by Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and lavish tax dollars are all sorts of projects, such as free healthcare services for illegal aliens in America, subsidized body mutilations for Americans who are pursuing the transgender ideology, open the nation's borders to criminals and more.

Trump said he would be happy to meet with Democrats as soon as they get serious about working to help America.

Trump said, "After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive. They are threatening to shut down the Government of the United States unless they can have over $1 Trillion Dollars in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens (A monumental cost!), force Taxpayers to fund Transgender surgery for minors, have dead people on the Medicaid roles, allow Illegal Alien Criminals to steal Billions of Dollars in American Taxpayer Benefits, try to force our Country to again open our Borders to Criminals and to the World, allow men to play in women's sports, and essentially create Transgender operations for everybody."

His statement continued, "These Radical Left Views and Policies is what allowed me to win the Presidential Election, including all seven Swing States, and the Popular Vote, IN A HISTORIC LANDSLIDE. There are consequences to losing Elections but, based on their letter to me, the Democrats haven't figured that out yet. They are trying to eliminate the popular $50 Billion Dollar Rural and Vulnerable Hospital Fund, which was passed with only Republican Votes, and proudly signed into Law by ME. The Democrats in Congress seem to have totally lost their way.

"They obviously have no idea what it means to put America First or to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! All Congressional Democrats want to do is enact Radical Left Policies that nobody voted for — High Taxes, Open Borders, No Consequences for Violent Criminals, Men in Women's Sports, Taxpayer funded 'TRANSGENDER' surgery, and much more. Few people voted for what they represent, which would lead to the destruction of America. Instead, people voted for COMMON SENSE, and that's what the Republicans and your President, 'DONALD J. TRUMP,' stand for. I look forward to meeting with them if they get serious about the future of our Nation. We must keep the Government open, and legislate like true Patriots rather than hold American Citizens hostage, knowing that they want our now thriving Country closed. I'll be happy to meet with them if they agree to the Principles in this Letter. They must do their job! Otherwise, it will just be another long and brutal slog through their radicalized quicksand. To the Leaders of the Democrat Party, the ball is in your court. I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things that our Country stands for. DO THE RIGHT THING!"

Schumer and Jeffries had been scheduled to meet with Trump on Thursday with their demands for taxpayer spending.

The partial government shutdown is looming on Sept. 30.

The meeting had been set after Schumer and Jeffries sent a letter threatening a shutdown, and trying to blame Republicans for their own refusal to cooperate.

Trump's response was that the Democrats were demanding about $1 trillion in additional spending.

Schumer and Jeffries last month had demanded meetings with majority Republican leaders in Congress, but it hasn't happened yet.

The Democrats have worked to include "Republican-caused" every time they talk about a government shutdown, even though it would be minority party opposition that would effect that.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained if the government shuttered, it "would be the fault of the Democrats."