What are the latest updates on the government shutdown?
Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. For a 10th time, the Republican-led Senate failed to get the votes to advance legislation to reopen the federal government. NPR's Barbara Sprunt has details.
The 51 to 45 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to move forward. Senate Republicans need a handful of Democrats to join them in order to advance the bill. Two Democrats and one independent senator have repeatedly voted alongside Republicans. No new Democrats have joined them since that first vote.
As the stalemate continues, Senate Democrats insist Republicans have to negotiate with them in order to get their votes, specifically on the soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies. Republicans say reopen the government first, negotiate after.
Because the Senate doesn't plan to be in legislative session until Monday, it's expected that the funding lapse and negotiation impasse will hit the three-week mark next week. Barbara Sprint, NPR News, the Capitol. President Trump will host Ukraine's president at the White House tomorrow, but first he called Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he says he made progress.
In Pierce, Michelle Culliman with more. President Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration with Putin and says the war in Ukraine is making Putin look bad. He has dubbed Russia a paper tiger and said he's been talking about giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles and other things Kiev wants, and complaining that Putin doesn't seem to want the war to end.
But in a social media post, Trump said he talked with the Russian leader about trade deals once the war in Ukraine is over. He says he will talk to Zelensky about the conversation with Putin and will meet the Kremlin leader in Hungary sometime after U.S. and Russian negotiators lay the groundwork for a summit. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Washington.
NPR founding mother Susan Stamberg has died at the age of 87. Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor, a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself. NPR's David Fockenflick with this tribute. Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women.
Stamberg said NPR's first program director, Bill Simmering, was brave to put her behind the microphone. And he said two magical words to me very early on. He said, be yourself. And what he meant was, we want to hear voices on our air that we would hear across our dinner tables at night or at the local grocery stores.
She hosted All Things Considered and Weekend Edition and then became a special correspondent. She found joy in the creativity of culture, the spark of science, even the humanity in politics. To this day, Susan Stamberg's recorded voice announces each floor on the elevators at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Third floor, newsroom. David Folkenflik, NPR News. It's NPR.
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