Stephen Fowler

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a reduction in flights at major airports across the country to ease congestion.

Federal officials have suggested further cuts could come if the shutdown continues.

Here in the terminal, a sea of yellow delayed and red canceled notices washes over the departures board as thousands of flights across the country are disrupted for another day.

Staffing shortages exacerbated by the government shutdown have led to ground delays in places like Atlanta, Newark, and San Francisco.

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a reduction in flights at major airports across the country to ease congestion.

Federal officials have suggested further cuts could come if the shutdown continues.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Reagan National Airport, Concourse B.

Some states are telling their residents they will be receiving the full benefits.

There's a letter from the U.S.

Department of Agriculture today telling states to prepare to receive full funding.

But the Trump administration called the judge's decision a, quote, mockery of the separation of powers and went on to say that courts hold neither the power to appropriate nor the power to spend.

In Georgia, Democrats flipped two seats on the Public Service Commission with more than 60 percent of the vote.

The first time, Democrats have won a non-federal statewide election there since 2006.

In Pennsylvania, voters chose to retain three Democratic state Supreme Court justices in

and regained control of top offices in multiple swing counties.

Mississippi Democrats broke a supermajority in that state Senate, while Democrats won enough seats to gain a supermajority in New Jersey State Assembly, and more than a dozen seats flipped in Virginia's House of Delegates.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

Trump has actually referred repeatedly to cutting explicitly Democrat programs, and there is no such thing.

The two million or so civilian federal employees that do things like process Social Security payments, handle your taxes, and do other government services work in a nonpartisan manner.

But there are things championed by Democrats and former President Joe Biden's administration that the White House says are partisan, not necessary, and do not align with Trump's values.