Shumita Basu

I'm Shamita Basu.

This is Apple News Today.

On today's show, why the U.S.

is skipping the climate event of the year, Trump sends the world's largest military aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, and how 2025 became a bad year for measles.

But first, as soon as today, the House looks set to approve a deal that would finally reopen the government.

It would fund much of the government through the end of January and provide some funding for other agencies through the end of next September.

The record-breaking shutdown has brought real hardship for millions of Americans as both parties waited for the other to blink.

The agreement does not include anything on health care subsidies, the key issue that most Democrats were holding out for.

Right now, the COVID-era subsidies for those on Affordable Care Act plans are set to expire at the end of the year, and it's not clear what happens after that.

Yesterday, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CNN it wasn't over.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune promised a vote on a health care bill of Democrats choosing by mid-December, but the odds are stacked against it.

And Meredith Lee Hill, senior Congress reporter for Politico, told us there's little time left to make an impact for people bearing the brunt of increased costs.

People enrolled in health insurance plans on the ACA marketplace are seeing skyrocketing premiums for the coming year, and many are now faced with a choice of whether to re-enroll or go without health insurance.

Extending the subsidies would cost roughly $23 billion next year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and many Republicans are reluctant to sign on to that.

So far, House Speaker Mike Johnson has not promised a vote on the subsidies extension, and many House fiscal hawks reject it on cost grounds.

Some Republicans, like Senator Bill Cassidy, have talked about a different approach to allocating that same spending.

President Trump has endorsed this idea, so much so that he suggested putting his own name on it in a Fox News interview on Monday.

But Lee Hill said even some of his loyal supporters are skeptical of that plan.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that two million Americans will lose health insurance altogether next year if subsidies expire.

Thousands of delegates have descended on the city of Belém, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River as this year's global climate gathering, COP30, gets underway.