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.

The government is still set to shutdown, after Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump and didn't reach a deal.

On Monday, the White House unveiled a 20-point plan to end Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, an announcement that came shortly after President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in the Oval Office.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders arrived at the White House Monday afternoon for a meeting with President Donald Trump in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions.

Speaking to Margaret Brennan on CBS’ Face the Nation, Cobb said that the country’s “biggest mistake” is “reelecting President Trump.” Cobb joined a chorus of legal scholars from both parties in condemning the indictment of former FBI director James Comey, seemingly at Trump’s behest.

New details are emerging Monday about the gunman in a fatal attack on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan.

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Current spending is set to expire Tuesday evening. The House has approved a stopgap bill to keep agencies open through Nov. 21, but Democrats have so far blocked it from proceeding in the Senate.