President Trump will meet next week with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss the December deadline to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters said Tuesday.

Congress must pass a spending bill by Dec. 8 to avoid a partial government shutdown, and some Republicans are preparing to fight to lift defense spending caps as part of the legislative package. But there is already talk of passing a short-term funding bill to give lawmakers more time to settle on a final spending bill for the year.