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I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal.
This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
First up in news today from the Trump administration, the January jobs report that was scheduled to come out this Friday is delayed because of a government shutdown.
If you're thinking, deja vu, well, you're not wrong.
It's the second time in five months that work has stopped at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS.
House Democrats are pushing for changes on immigration enforcement.
That's stalled a package of bills that includes money for the BLS.
WSJ economics reporter Matt Grossman says a delayed report isn't great news for investors.
The report will be rescheduled when funding resumes.
The House is expected to vote on the bills as soon as tomorrow.
Since it's a partial shutdown, it won't affect all agencies and programs.
National parks remain open, for example, while the IRS is affected, but employees are exempt from any furloughs through Saturday.
Meanwhile, we're exclusively reporting that a U.S.
intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
The whistleblower complaint is so highly classified that it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress.
Since it was filed last May, the complaint has prompted a behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it.
For example, the complaint is said to be locked in a safe, and one official said that disclosure of its contents could damage national security.
The whistleblower's lawyer has accused Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint.
Gabbard's office rejects that characterization and has dismissed the complaint as quote, baseless and politically motivated.
A representative for the intelligence community's inspector general said the office had determined specific allegations against Gabbard weren't credible.