() The government is set to shut down Wednesday if Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on a funding bill to keep it open.

Large differences remained after a Monday afternoon meeting between the White House and leaders from both parties, the first meeting with President Donald Trump since the negotiations began.

Neither side seems hopeful that a breakthrough will be reached in time to stop a shutdown.

Democrats are demanding changes to the bill.

They are asking for an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of 2025, payments that help people buying health insurance through the exchange afford premiums; a reversal of some of the funding cuts the “big, beautiful bill” made to Medicaid; and an end to recissions, meaning when Congress passes funding for something, Trump cannot take that money back.

Democrats are standing firm that unless they get all three of those concessions, they will not vote for the temporary funding bill.

Republicans, meanwhile, are saying they want to pass a simple bill funding government at the current levels to move things along for a few more weeks and give both sides time to negotiate a long-term funding deal.

Democratic House Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., made it clear what the stakes are.

“We’ve made clear that we are willing to find a bipartisan path forward on a spending bill negotiated by Democrats and Republicans, but it has to meet the needs of the American people,” Jeffries said. “We’re not going to simply go along to get along with a Republican bill that continues to gut the health care of everyday Americans who are already living with this Trump economy, where costs aren’t going down, but they’re going up. Inflation is going up. Donald Trump and Republicans promised to lower the high cost of living on Day 1.”

Jeffries noted that if the ACA subsidies expire, tens of millions of Americans could see the cost of health care increase by thousands of dollars a year.

“Democrats are fighting to protect the health care of the American people,” he said.

Jeffries and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., seemed to be on the same page.

The last time this happened, in March, Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to avoid a shutdown.

This time, it seems like both chambers are in lockstep.

House Republicans have also been staying united, telling members on a phone call that they believe the general public is going to side with them on the issues.

Republicans are claiming Democrats want to provide health care to people who are in the U.S. illegally, something Democrats have pushed back on.

But in the Washington Post, Sen. Republican Leader John Thune said in an op-ed, “There’s a difference between careful discussion and negotiation during the appropriations process and taking government funding hostage to jam more than a trillion dollars in big government spending in a funding bill designed to last mere weeks.”

Republicans are casting blame on the Democrats as government workers who could face furloughs or layoffs wait to find out what will happen.

“We think the American people are gonna suffer because these guys won’t do the right thing,” said Vice President JD Vance.