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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The partial government shutdown is expected to run through the weekend. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports that the Senate plans to vote on on two stopgap bills that have been rejected twice.
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John Thune
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he'll put the failed stopgap bills on the floor again to keep up pressure on Democrats. But even Thune is skeptical anything will change.
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He'll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to keep to open up the government. And if that fails, then we'll give him the weekend to think about it. We'll come back and we'll go again on Monday.
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Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate, so they'll need support from at least seven Democrats to reach a required 60 vote threshold to overcome a filibuster. But the parties are stuck. Democrats are demanding an extension of expiring Affordable Care act subsidies, and Republicans say that won't happen in a short term measure. Claudi Grizzales, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
The Capitol airport security agents are working without pay during the partial shutdown, and NPR's Joel Rose reports that travel delays are possible.
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Joel Rose
For now, it looks like business as usual here at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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Joel Rose
Privately, several security officers told me morale is not good. Nationwide, more than 60,000 employees at the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, remain on the job, though they won't be paid in full until the shutdown ends. During the last government shutdown in 2018 and 2019, TSA officers began to call in sick in larger numbers as the shutdown wore on. Airlines are bracing for longer lines at security and other delays in the aviation system if the current shutdown continues to Joel Rose, NPR News, Arlington, Virginia.
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Shea Stevens
The Energy Department has canceled more than $7 billion in funding for hundreds of projects. Democrats say the White House is using the cuts to punish its political opponents. More from NPR's Michael Copley.
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Michael Copley
The Energy Department says it terminated funding for projects that don't address the country's energy needs and aren't economically viable. The announcement came hours after the White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vogt posted on X that the administration was canceling funding for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the last election. Doe hasn't released a list of the projects. Democratic lawmakers called the move an illegal act of political retribution. The White House referred NPR to the Energy Department for comment. Doe didn't respond to messages seeking comment. Michael Copley, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
President Trump has declared drug cartels enemy combatants and foreign terrorist organizations. The declarations follow through three deadly U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean targeting boats that the administration says were hauling drugs to the United States. US Futures are flat in after hours trading on Wall Street. This is npr. Authorities in Britain are calling an attack in Manchester, England, an act of terrorism. An assailant drove a car into a crowd at a synagogue, killing two people and wounding at least three others. The suspect has been identified as 35 year old Jihad Al Shami who lived in Britain, arriving there as a child from Syria. An aid group in Haiti is warning that the violence in the capital city keeps getting worse. As NPR's Ada Peralta reports, the warning comes as the UN prepares a new effort to help quell the violence.
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Ada Peralta
Doctors Without Borders says their teams treated some 2,600 survivors of sexual violence in the first six months of the year. Their hospitals admitted more than 2,000 people for traumatic injuries due to violence. The UN estimates that more than 3,000 people were killed in that same period. Gangs have taken most of the capital city, Port au Prince, and at the moment, only one hospital is functional. This week, the UN Security Council voted to create a new security mission. In 2023, the UN authorized the deployment of a Kenyan led mission which was underfunded and understaffed, and it failed to make significant gains against the gangs. Eder Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
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Shea Stevens
Russian President Vladimir Putin says US Military support for Ukraine could seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington, but he says it would have no impact on the battlefield. Refer to US Plans to provide Ukraine with intelligence on long range energy targets in Russia. In remarks to foreign policy experts, Putin also hailed President Trump's efforts to help negotiate an end to the war. Again, US Futures are flat and after hours trading, Asia Pacific markets are mixed. This is NPR News.
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