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What triggered the federal government shutdown and who is blaming whom?
For the first time since 2019, the government has run out of money to keep all federal agencies operating. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats are to blame for refusing to endorse a stopgap bill.
We didn't ask Democrats to swallow any new Republican policies. We didn't add partisan riders. We simply asked Democrats to extend existing funding levels to allow the Senate to continue the bipartisan appropriations work that we started.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says it is Republicans who do not want to negotiate.
So now two times Republicans have failed to get enough votes to avoid a shutdown. They've got to sit down and negotiate with Democrats. to come to a bill that both parties can support.
Schumer says Democrats are insisting on the restoration of subsidies for recipients of the Affordable Care Act, though subsidies expire at the end of the year. President Trump has posted another racist, deepfake video mocking House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, seen wearing a sombrero. The video also shows four AI-generated images of Donald Trump playing mariachi music behind Jeffries. A similar fake video posted late Monday shows Jeffries alongside a seemingly foul-mouthed Chuck Schumer appearing to slam his own party. Federal employees' unions have sued the Trump administration for threatening mass firings during a government shutdown. NPR's Andrea Hsu has more.
The lawsuit stems from a memo that the White House Office of Management and Budget sent to federal agencies last week. It told agencies to consider sending layoff notices to federal employees working on programs or activities that aren't consistent with the president's priorities in the event of a government shutdown. The two unions behind the lawsuit together represent more than 800,000 federal employees. They argue that the threat of layoffs is, quote, an unlawful abuse of power designed to punish workers and pressure Congress. They've asked a federal court in San Francisco to find that the Office of Management and Budget unlawfully exceeded its authority in issuing the memo and to invalidate actions that come from it.
Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
Officers from more than a dozen federal agencies have converged on Memphis, Tennessee as part of President Trump's federal intervention. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf has more.
What disagreements are Senate leaders citing over the stopgap funding bill?
Trump has said the Memphis task force is to fight crime in the city, which has some of the highest rates of violent crime in the country. Those numbers have been declining, but they're still high. Many residents in Memphis welcome the federal intervention, like 42-year-old Ronnie Davis in the northern neighborhood of Frayser.
We need all the government agencies that we can get down here because the problem is coming overwhelming.
Davis says gun violence in particular has become so common in his neighborhood, he's almost numb to it. But others have protested, worried it will expand federal power in the city.
Kat Lonsdorff reporting. You're listening to NPR. A Nevada judge has barred a federal prosecutor from overseeing several cases. U.S. District Judge David Campbell says Sagal Chatham is serving unlawfully because her authority as an interim U.S. attorney is expired in July. He wants Chata's subordinates to continue working on the cases and to notify the court within seven days on whether she is still supervising them. More Minnesota turkey growers are using laser technology to reduce the spread of avian influenza. Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson has details.
The legislature approved $400,000 over two years to help producers buy the lasers. Projectors are affixed to the top of Minnesota's commercial turkey barns, and the infrared beams keep migratory ducks and geese away without hurting them. The birds don't like the lights, so they steer away.
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