Shutdown Deal Elusive With IRS Impact Murky: BGOV Tax

Shutdown Fight Goes Down to the Wire

Federal offices at the IRS and beyond run out of money at midnight Tuesday absent an elusive deal on Capitol Hill to avoid a shutdown. Lawmakers remain at loggerheads over how to keep paying government employees when the federal fiscal year begins Wednesday.

In a small sign of potential progress, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with congressional leaders, including Democrats, at the White House later today.

The discussions will be the first between Trump and congressional leaders ahead of the shutdown deadline. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and his House counterpart, ...