Updated 12:45 p.m. | There are no shutdown talks with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Donald Trump’s Friday schedule and no invitations for any have been extended, even as White House aides claim the president put the kibosh on her Afghanistan trip in part to keep her on U.S. soil to cut a deal.

What’s more, an explosive report that Trump directed his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie during testimony to Congress likely will only drive the White House and Democrats further apart, making a border security deal needed to reopen the government even harder as Washington becomes increasingly toxic.

House Democrats are already saying that the Judiciary and Intelligence committees will investigate the allegations in that report.

“If [Pelosi] leaves, she guarantees that the second round of paychecks to 800,000 federal workers won’t go out. The deadline to make that deal is midnight on Tuesday,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, referring to a deal to get those workers paid.

But when the president’s Friday public schedule was released late Thursday evening, there was only one event on it: a 12:45 p.m. Oval Office meeting with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that will be closed to the press. Previous shutdown-related meetings with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York have been listed on Trump’s public schedule.