Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. The Senate is in session this weekend, working to try and find a bipartisan solution to reopen the federal government. NPR's Ava Pukash reports today is day 39 of the shutdown, the longest in history.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says a Democratic proposal to agree to a one-year extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits is a non-starter.
Chapter 2: What is the current status of the federal government shutdown?
There's still only one path out. It's a clean funding extension.
Minority leader Chuck Schumer criticized Republicans for dismissing the offer. And he argued the Trump administration could choose to find funding for SNAP food benefits and pay air traffic controllers going without pay if it wanted to.
This crisis is in the administration's hands. It's all them, not anyone else.
On Truth Social, President Trump reiterated his push for Republicans to terminate the filibuster to end the shutdown. Eva Pukach, NPR News.
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to withhold, for now, payments under SNAP, the Federal Food Assistance Program. This allows a lower court more time to consider the administration's request to make only partial payments. SNAP benefits have lasted for the first time in the 60-year history of the program. Allie Coffrey is a special education teacher in Pennsylvania.
She says many of her students rely on the program, so she began packing lunches for them.
We can come together for a common cause, and at the end of the day, the people that are really affected are the kids. They don't have to stay in whatever... happens, and we need to protect them. So this is helping me do that, and it's showing me that we are able to do that.
A video of her packing lunches has received more than a million views. She says people are sending her donations, which has restored her faith in humanity. UPS and FedEx have temporarily grounded their MD-11 cargo planes after one crashed during takeoff in Louisville on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people. From member station WEKU, Curtis Tate reports.
The cargo carriers made the decision out of an abundance of caution on the recommendation of Boeing, which bought the plane's original manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas. UPS and FedEx have roughly two dozen MD-11s each. UPS Flight 2976, bound for Honolulu, crashed while attempting to take off in Louisville. Investigators are still piecing together what went wrong.
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