Katie Pavlich

funding bill for the furloughed employees?

I mean, these are some of those moderate and or battleground district Republicans who, quite frankly, admit in this new letter that they just sent to Speaker Mike Johnson that, quite frankly, they need to get something done on this.

That, yes, while they say it is not their, quote, responsibility that we are in this situation, they have the opportunity to fight.

And quite frankly, they seem to see the writing on the wall, which Democrats are really hitting Republicans on for quite some time, that if these premiums start to skyrocket, which is what we're expecting them to do in the next couple of weeks as people get those notices in the mail.

And also, of course, the marketplace opens on November 1.

There could be some backlash.

And one of the things that Democrats quietly have said since the beginning of this shutdown fight is, at the very least, changing the national conversation to really hone in on health care could be a winning message for them because Democrats traditionally poll very well in that arena.

Meanwhile, here on Capitol Hill, the push and pull, quite frankly, continues where both sides are not really talking to each other.

They're talking to themselves.

And some of the top Republicans in the Senate are very much laying the line in the sand, which is echoed by these battleground Republicans basically saying we're not going to do anything, though, until the government reopens.

Amazon, which is reportedly on the verge of a seismic workplace shift.

The New York Times reports that executives at the online retail giant believe the company aims to replace more than half a million jobs with robots.

The company expects to avoid hiring more than 160,000 in the U.S.

that would otherwise need by 2027.

In all, executives think the automation would allow the company to avoid hiring 600,000 new employees.

Doesn't seem good.

Amazon said in a statement that the documents viewed by the paper were incomplete and did not represent the company's overall hiring strategy.

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