From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.

This is the Daily.

So Donald Trump is now officially against passing the funding bill that would avoid a government shutdown four days before Christmas.

Weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Trump is pushing the federal government toward a shutdown.

Look at the list of CEOs who are either shelling out big money or meeting with Trump in person or both.

We're talking about CEOs from TikTok, Google, Apple, Netflix.

The country's corporate titans are flocking to Mar-a-Lago to curry Trump's favor.

Today, ABC News agreed to give $15 million to Donald Trump's president.

And a major media company has capitulated to Trump's legal strategy of suing those who cross it.

To make sense of all of this, I gathered three of my colleagues, senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman,

congressional reporter Katie Edmondson, and financial columnist and the founder of Dealbook, Andrew Ross Sorkin.

It's Friday, December 20th.

Everyone, welcome to the roundtable.

Katie, Maggie, Andrew, thank you all for making time for us.

Thank you for happiness.

Thanks, Michael.

Okay, let's jump right in.

We are talking to the three of you at a very live news moment, 12.33 p.m. on Thursday,

with a government shutdown looming.

And I mentioned that timing because events could change after we tape.

There could, for example, be a deal to try to avert a shutdown.

But I think shutdown is where we need to start this conversation.

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