Operator
Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the SPX FLOW Q1 2021 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would like to hand the conference over to your speaker for today, Mr. Scott Gaffner. Please go ahead.
Scott Gaffner
Vice President, Investor Relations and Strategic Insights
Thank you, Francis. Good morning, and thanks to everyone for joining us for a discussion of our first quarter 2021 financial results. This morning, we issued a news release detailing our financial performance for the three months ending April 3, 2021. The news release, along with the presentation to be used during today s webcast can be accessed on our website at spxflow.com, and a replay will also be available on our website later today. Joining me today are Marc Michael, President and CEO, and Jaime Easley, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following their prepared remarks, we ll open the call for questions.
again, and we re going to keep on pounding away at this thing, because i m absolutely convinced that we can get this done. we ve had a long meeting with the president. it was very honest. we ve narrowed the issues significantly, and we re going to continue working. our staffs are going to work through the night. the speaker and i will get back together tomorrow morning and see how they did and continue. i have confidence we can get this done. we re not there yet. we did have a productive conversation this evening. we do have some honest differences, but i do think we made some progress, but i want to reiterate, there s no agreement on a number and there s no agreement on the policy. reporter: the white house meeting with president obama and vice president biden hosting tonight comes after another day of negotiations between democrats and republicans in congress that failed to produce a budget agreement. at stake, a potential federal government shutdown. all nonessential