The US government is two days away from a shutdown as lawmakers and the White House feud over immigration.
Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a stopgap measure that would fund federal agencies until next month.
Democrats want the bill to include protections for
immigrants who entered the US illegally as children.
Hopes of a bipartisan deal were scuttled last week after
Mr Trump's alleged use of a crude term during White
House negotiations.
Neither Republicans, who control both chambers of
Congress and the White House, nor Democrats want to be
blamed for a federal shutdown with crucial mid-term
elections looming in November.
What are Republicans offering?
House Republicans are attempting to entice Democrats to
vote for the continuing resolution by including a provision
to extend the Children's Health Insurance Program (Chip)
for six years.
Chip, which provides healthcare for nine million children, is
near the top of Democrats' wish list.
The House of Representatives could vote on the measure
as early as Thursday, and if it passes, the bill would go to
the Senate.
At least some Democratic votes are needed to pass the
budget measure ahead of Friday's deadline.
However, the Republican proposal could also face
opposition among their own hardline rank-and-file in the
House.
Republicans hope a provision in the bill to eliminate a tax
on expensive health plans could appease conservative
lawmakers.
What do Democrats want?
Democrats want the bill to include protections for around
700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to country
as children, known as "Dreamers".
Mr Trump last year ended Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (Daca), the programme that allowed Dreamers to
stay in the US.
The US president gave a deadline of 5 March for Congress
to come up with a solution.
The Republican president had signalled he was ready to
make a deal to help the Dreamers in return for funding on
border security, including a wall along the US border with
Mexico.
On Wednesday US media reported that the White House
chief of staff had privately told a group of Democratic
lawmakers that President Trump had not been fully
informed when promising voters to build the wall during
campaigning.
John Kelly was quoted as saying that he had tried to
persuade the president to change his position on the issue.
Bipartisan immigration talks had sounded promising until
it was reported last week that Mr Trump had dubbed
certain nations "shitholes" during legislative negotiations.
As the White House and lawmakers feuded over who said
what, prospects of a grand bargain on an issue that has
bedevilled successive US administrations receded.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic
Senator Dick Durbin maintain a deal is still on the table.
But the White House has declared it dead, leaving
immigration out of the spending bill to be voted on by
Friday.
Kicking the can again?
Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
The thing about a game of chicken is knowing when to
blink. Democrats and Republicans are again careening
toward a government shutdown neither side really seems
to want.
The power dynamic here, however, is far from balanced.
Republicans control both chambers of Congress.
If they stick together, the House of Representatives can
pass some sort of short-term solution without any
Democratic support. Then Senate Democrats will have to
decide whether they have the numbers to block the bill and
force a shutdown - or if they should even try.
If Democrats get six years' worth of funding for low-income
children's healthcare - part of the proposed legislation to
keep the government open for another month - is that
enough?
Will they pay a political price from their base for not going
to the brink - and, perhaps, over - to get help for the
undocumented immigrants who entered the US as
children?
At least so far, Democrats have been reluctant to risk a
government shutdown to protect the hundreds of
thousands of these "Dreamers". And Republicans are too
fractured to agree on much of anything at all.
It's a recipe for procrastination and another round of
brinksmanship in just a few weeks' time.
Didn't this just happen?
Yes. In December, Congress passed a similar short-term
bill to keep the government open until 19 January.
The hope had been that Congress would have reached a
deal on immigration by now.
And this deal, if it passes, would only keep the government
running until 16 February.
The whole drama may be replayed in the coming weeks.
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