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What is the current status of the federal government shutdown?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Today is the sixth day of the federal government shutdown. There's no end in sight. Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the impasse. President Trump says the shutdown means that he is laying off federal workers. He says that has already started.
It's taking place right now, and it's all because of the Democrats. The Democrats are causing the loss of a lot of jobs with their, it's a shutdown. It's their shutdown, not our shutdown. It's their shutdown.
Both sides are deeply set in their positions. Republicans are demanding the Democrats agree to a stopgap bill to lift the shutdown. Democrats say Republicans need to first rescind their deep cuts to federal health care programs. The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a spending measure. A federal judge has again blocked President Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Oregon.
This is the judge's second ruling on this issue this weekend. She found that the Trump administration did not meet a legal standard to deploy the National Guard troops. Oregon and California had sued to block Trump's action. Meanwhile, President Trump has also ordered National Guard troops from Texas to go to Illinois, as well as Oregon. Illinois Democratic Governor J.B.
Pritzker is calling this action, quote, Trump's invasion. And that's not all. NPR's Tom Bowman reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Illinois National Guard to deploy in Illinois to protect immigration agents and federal facilities.
The troops are expected to deploy to Chicago sometime this week. Hegseth said in a memo, says the troops are to protect facilities where, quote, violent demonstrations are occurring or could occur based on threat assessments. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has refused to deploy his guard, so President Trump has taken control by federalizing them.
Sending guard troops to protect ICE agents and other federal officers doing their jobs could run afoul of the law. Tom Bowman, NPR News.
Three scientists have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today. NPR's Rob Stein reports this is for their work discovering how the human immune system is kept in check.
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