The federal government barreled toward a shutdown on Tuesday ahead of a midnight deadline, as President Trump and Republicans in Congress remained deadlocked with Democrats in a spending standoff that was growing uglier by the hour.
Democratic leaders lashed out at Mr. Trump for posting a crude, A.I.-generated video insulting and mocking them on Monday night, hours after meeting with them at the White House to discuss the impasse.
The deepfake video superimposed a cartoon mustache and sombrero over Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who was pictured standing silently while Mariachi music played and the voice of Senator Chuck Schumer was distorted to deliver expletive-laden remarks that included the line, “Nobody likes Democrats anymore.”
Mr. Jeffries responded on Monday night by posting a photograph of Mr. Trump smiling alongside Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
“This is real,” the post said.
In a separate post, Mr. Jeffries wrote, “Bigotry will get you no where.”
As of midday Tuesday, there were no signs that congressional leaders planned to meet again to try to reach a spending agreement.
“We have less than a day,” Mr. Schumer said on the Senate floor, “and Donald Trump is tweeting deep fakes.”
Democrats and Republicans both stuck to their respective demands on Tuesday, and they appeared set to spend the day blaming each other for the impasse and the resulting shutdown that appeared more likely with each passing moment. Republican leaders have insisted that Democrats accept a House-passed bill that would simply extend federal funds at current levels through Nov. 21.
Democrats are demanding more than $1 trillion to extend Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year and roll back cuts to Medicaid and other health program that Republicans included in their marquee tax cut and domestic policy law that was enacted over the summer.
If the Obamacare tax credits are allowed to lapse, about four million people are projected to lose coverage starting next year, and prices would go up for an additional 20 million people. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that 10 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 as a result of the health cuts in the new tax law.
Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, has said he would be willing to negotiate separately on extending the tax credits. Many of his senators who are up for re-election next year have endorsed the move. But Democrats were taking government funding “hostage,” Mr. Thune said.
“The Democrats’ far-left base and far-left senators have demanded a showdown with the president,” he said on Tuesday. “And the Democrat leaders have bowed to their demands. Apparently, the American people just have to suffer the consequences.”
Mr. Trump and other Republicans continued to hammer at the misleading accusation that Democrats were shutting down the government in order to give health care to unauthorized immigrants.
“We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans” B.S., Mr. Trump’s fake video falsely quoted Mr. Schumer as saying. “So we need new voters, and if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us.”
Catie Edmondson covers Congress for The Times.
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