What is the current status of the government shutdown?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Joel Snyder. Few signs of progress in breaking the government shutdown stalemate. The Senate is expected to meet again today after failing to reach a resolution during an unusual Saturday session. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says there's only one way to bring the shutdown to an end.
And I urge my colleagues to support a clean, continuing resolution so we can start a real discussion to address their health care mess. get back to the regular appropriations process, and above all, finally provide relief to the American people.
Extending health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act is a central issue. Senator Thune has called a Democratic proposal for a one-year extension a non-starter. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.
The leader has said he won't negotiate before. We're willing to negotiate once the credits are extended back. plain and simple. And we made that in our proposal yesterday.
The shutdown is now in its 40th day. It has disrupted flights, cut food assistance that millions of Americans rely on, and left federal workers without pay. Flight delays and cancellations are piling up across the U.S. following the FAA's order to reduce air traffic. The delays included Washington, D.C. 's Reagan National Airport. where NPR's Stephen Fowler reports during his own delayed travel.
Here in the terminal, a sea of yellow delayed and red canceled notices washes over the departures board as thousands of flights across the country are disrupted for another day. Staffing shortages exacerbated by the government shutdown have led to ground delays in places like Atlanta, Newark, and San Francisco.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a reduction in flights at major airports across the country to ease congestion. Federal officials have suggested further cuts could come if the shutdown continues.
Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Reagan National Airport, Concourse B. Overseas, Ukrainian cities facing power cuts of between 8 to 16 hours. After massive Russian strikes on the energy grid wiped out power generating capacity, Russia has intensified attacks on energy infrastructure each fall. Since its full-scale invasion more than three years ago, NPR's Joannika Kisic reports from Kiev.
Ukraine's state-owned electricity generating company, Centronego, said that the Russian attacks had reduced capacity to, quote, zero at thermal power plants. Foreign Minister Andriy Sibycha said that Russian drones also targeted two nuclear power substations deep in western Ukraine.
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