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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.
What does the government shutdown mean for federal services and who will keep operating?
The government has run out of money, but some federal agencies, including the military and Social Security, will continue operating. Senate Majority Leader John Thune blames the shutdown on Democrats 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 health care subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is instructing federal agencies to tell their workers to blame the partial shutdown on Democrats. But NPR's Stephen Fowler reports that some ethics experts say that message may violate the law.
Federal employees across the government have been sent a message from the Office of Management and Budget. It reads in part that any lapse in government funding would be, quote, forced by congressional Democrats. Legal experts say that message and a banner on the Housing and Urban Development website that blames the, quote, radical left for the shutdown could violate ethics laws. Republicans control both chambers of Congress but need Democratic support and the Senate to approve any government funding deal. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
Beginning today, Planned Parenthood will stop providing abortions in Wisconsin, at least temporarily. As Sarah Lear of Wisconsin Public Radio explains, the organization is pausing those services to avoid losing millions of dollars in federal funding.
For decades, U.S. law has banned using federal dollars to fund abortions. A provision in Trump's new tax and spending law goes farther than that. It prohibits larger nonprofits from being reimbursed through Medicaid for any type of reproductive health service if that organization provides abortions.
Why are Senate leaders blaming each other for the shutdown and what are their demands?
Because Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin gets nearly two-thirds of its budget from Medicaid, Planned Parenthood official Nicole Safar says the organization will halt abortions in this state starting October 1st.
We are trying to navigate an incredibly challenging political environment that President Trump has created and Republicans in Congress have created.
Safar says the group will be referring people seeking abortions to out-of-state and independent clinics. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Lear in Madison.
President Trump says he's reached a deal with Pfizer to lower drug costs for Medicare and prescriptions sold directly to consumers. The deal also calls for a new government-run website called TrumpRx.gov. This is NPR. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will no longer tolerate service members with beards, excess body weight, and woke ideology. Hegseth told top military brass summoned to Virginia from around the world Tuesday that combatants must meet the highest standards. He says women who do not meet male physical standards for combat will be excluded from those roles and will no longer... and there will be no religious or medical exemptions for troops. Hecht says the changes are meant to fix what he called decades of decay.
Colombia's foreign minister has renounced her U.S. visa. Rosa Villa Vincencio is protesting the U.S. State Department's decision to revoke the visa of Colombia's president following his participation in a pro-Palestinian protest in New York. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the central Philippines has left dozens killed and many others injured.
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