White House, congressional leaders will try again to reach spending deal

Top congressional leaders from both parties will meet with senior White House officials this week as the Trump administration and Congress try once again to reach a deal to avoid tens of billions of dollars in automatic spending cuts this fall

, according to congressional and administration officials.

The bipartisan group met last month and reported surprising progress, only to see President Donald Trump — furious over a Pelosi accusation that he was involved in a "cover-up" of Russian election interference in the 2016 presidential race — angrily walk out a White House meeting May 22 with Democrats.Sign Up

Yet White House officials remain skeptical that Democrats, who want to increase domestic spending despite a rapidly rising deficit, will agree to any proposed deal, no matter what Republicans put on the table. They also point that Trump is wildly unpredictable in any negotiations, as even Republicans know, so that they don't trust anything administration officials say unless Trump publicly endorses it.

GOP congressional leaders themselves are wary of Mulvaney and Vought, two budget hawks, which is why Mnuchin is the "point man" in the negotiations, at least for now.

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