The US government is two days away from a shutdown as lawmakers and the White House feud over immigration.
Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a stopgap measure that would fund federal agencies until next month.
Democrats want the bill to include protections for immigrants who entered the US as children.
Hopes of a bipartisan deal were scuttled last week after Mr Trump’s alleged use of a crude term during White House negotiations.
Neither Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress and the White House, nor Democrats want to be blamed for a federal shutdown with crucial mid-term elections looming in November.
What are Republicans offering?
House Republicans are attempting to entice Democrats to vote for the continuing resolution by including a provision to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip) for six years.
Chip, which provides healthcare for nine million children, is not the only provision offered in the deal.
The House of Representatives could vote on the measure as early as Thursday, and if it passes, would be sent to the Senate.
At least some Democratic votes are needed to pass a bill ahead of Friday’s deadline.
However, the Republican stop-gap measure could also face opposition among their own hardline rank-and-file in the House.
Republicans hope a provision in the bill to eliminate a tax on expensive health plans could appease conservative lawmakers.
What do Democrats want?
Democrats want the bill to include protections for around 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to country as children, known as “Dreamers”.
Mr Trump last year ended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), the programme that allowed Dreamers to stay in the US.
The US president gave a deadline of 5 March for Congress to come up with a solution.
The Republican president had signalled he was ready to make a deal to help the Dreamers in return for funding on border security, including a wall along the US border with Mexico.
Bipartisan immigration talks had sounded promising until it was reported last week that Mr Trump had dubbed certain nations “shitholes” during legislative negotiations.
As the White House and lawmakers feuded over who said what, prospects of a grand bargain on an issue that has bedevilled previous US administrations have receded.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin maintain a deal is still on the table.
But the White House has declared it dead, leaving immigration out of the spending bill to be voted on by Friday.
Didn’t this just happen?
Yes. In December, Congress passed a similar short-term bill to keep the government open until 19 January, when federal funding once again expires.
The hope had been that Congress would have reached a deal on immigration by now.
But with two days until a federal shutdown the legislative brinkmanship continues.
And this deal, if it passes, would only keep the government running through 16 February when the whole drama may be repeated.
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