Live updates: House will vote on spending bill to avoid shutdown; Rubio meets with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia

• The House is expected to vote on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s short-term government funding bill ahead of a Friday deadline to avoid a shutdown. President Donald Trump has urged Republicans, who have a slim majority in the House, to support the bill, which Democrats oppose.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s team in Saudi Arabia for diplomatic talks. Zelenskyy is hoping to undo the damage from his explosive Oval Office meeting with Trump and Vice President JD Vance last month.
• Trump is speaking to the Business Roundtable this afternoon after stocks plummeted over recession fears spurred by the president’s escalation of a trade war with major U.S. trading partners.

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