President Trump is calling off his meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just days before the deadline to keep the government open, Punchbowl News reports.

Trump said in a lengthy Truth Social post that he “decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive” and called Democrats’ demands “unserious and ridiculous.”

Jonathan Chait: “Stephen Miller delivered a eulogy for Charlie Kirk that served as a battle cry for the Trump administration’s state-sponsored war on his perceived foes—a war for which Miller is the primary strategist. The speech was a jarring piece of rhetoric. It is a perfect encapsulation of the ethos of Trumpism, boiling away the president’s idiosyncratic habits of mixing insult comedy and weird digressions into his rhetoric and leaving, in Miller’s tongue, the residue of pure ideology and will to power.”

“Miller’s theme was that President Donald Trump’s side embodies pure good, his opponents pure evil, and the former is destined to utterly destroy the latter. Republicans have never stopped complaining that Hillary Clinton once described a portion of Trump’s base as “a basket of deplorables.” Yet over the weekend the president’s most powerful adviser depicted half the country as worthless, irredeemably wicked, and fated for destruction.”

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem told Fox News that a social media post from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sent her family and friends into a panic.

Said Noem: “It was cryptic and it was really menacing, I would say, Sean. It immediately panicked my family and friends. Within, I would say, a couple of minutes of that being posted I started to get text messages and phone calls. Family, my kids saying, ‘Are you okay, Mom? Are you fine?’”