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FX stream on Hulu Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown faded today as both sides dug in their heels. Meanwhile, President Trump is threatening mass layoffs and further cuts across the federal government. Here's Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Rather than working with us to end the pain Americans are feeling because of a shutdown, Republicans have. Instead, they've wasted a week, refused to talk, and exacerbated pain for America.
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Democrats want an extension to health care subsidies. Republicans want to reopen the government, mostly at current spending levels. Speaker Mike Johnson is canceling House votes next week as Republicans pressure Senate Democrats to accept a short term funding bill and end the shutdown. Democratic governors are pushing back on a White House move to cut clean energy projects in states that did not go to President Trump in last year's election. Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson reports.
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The Energy Department announced that hundreds of projects were reviewed and didn't advance the nation's energy needs. The projects are in 16 states that didn't vote for Trump last year. Minnesota is among them. Governor Tim Wall says the move is politically motivated.
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This whole idea that that they see states as Democrats and Republicans or they see areas as red or blue is simply the most egregious violation of their oath to try and take care. You have a responsibility to give your best for people who vote against you.
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The department says award grantees will have 30 days to appeal. For NPR News, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul.
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A group of unions, religious organizations and education professionals is suing the Trump administration over its decision to slap a steep fee on skilled worker visas. John Ruich has more.
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The Trump administration last month said the government will start charging $100,000 for every new H1B visa that it issues. The visas are used to bring skilled workers into the American economy from abroad. President Trump says the program has been exploited to replace rather than supplement American workers. Critics say the new fee will make it harder to fill critical jobs. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Northern California. It argues that Trump does not have the authority to impose such a fee and asks for it to be blocked. The plaintiffs include UN representing workers and college professors, a nurse, staffing agency and religious organizations. It's the first major legal challenge to the rule change for H1B visas. John Ruich, NPR News.
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Several Democratic state attorneys general say the Trump administration has backed off from requiring cooperation with the president's immigration agenda in exchange for crime victim aid funding. Officials from 20 states and Washington, D.C. had signed on to a lawsuit filed in late August challenging the requirement. The administration threatened to cut money to states that refused to cooperate with federal immigration officials. Most US Stocks ticked higher today, sending Wall street to more records. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal officials will reimburse Florida $608 million for the immigration detention center in the Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz. But the reimbursement process could force Florida to wind down operations for a second time. In August, a judge ruled the site hadn't been given the proper environmental review as a federal but an appeals court put that ruling on hold because Florida had yet to receive federal money for the project. Israel says it's intercepted all boats that were part of a large flotilla of people trying to deliver food to Gaza. NPR's Emily Fang reports that Israel has begun to deport some of the 400 plus activists it's detained.
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Israel says it has deported four Italian citizens so far, and among those detained is Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist. Israeli media says at least some of the activists are now being held in the notorious Ketsiyat prison in the Negev desert. Before then, Israel's far right national Security Minister Itamar Ben GVIR entered the holding facility where the activists were detained to berate them as, quote, terrorists. He later wrote on the social media site X that they must be kept here in an Israeli prison for a few months so they can smell the scent of the terrorists wing arguing against deporting the journalists, politicians and doctors who were among the activists detained. Emily Feng, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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The association of American Publishers is honoring a Russian publishing house for its fight against censorship. Freedom Letters publishes works by anti war writers and opponents of President Putin. I'm Ryland Barton. This is NPR News from Washington.
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