Biden meets with congressional leaders at the White House to avoid administration shutdown. The president also tries to unblock aid to Ukraine and Israel already approved by the Senate.
The president has reserved just over an hour in his official agenda for a meeting that the vice president, Kamala Harris, also attends. The White House has not released the agenda for the meeting, but its spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, pointed out in her press conference this Monday the two most pressing matters.