Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Begins Shutdown That Could Lead to Mass Layoffs and Service Cuts
Trump Administration Live Updates: The U.S. Begins a Shutdown That Could Lead to Mass Layoffs and Service Cuts. So it’s deadline day. And of course, it’s Congress’s job to fund the federal government.
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So it goes without saying that Congress, with the help of the White House, is not doing its job because it’s now headed for a shutdown.
If they can’t agree on a spending deal by midnight tonight. It would be the first
shutdown since December 2018. It lasted 35 days, making it the longest government shutdown in more than four decades. We could talk for hours about the politics of it all.
It’s all politics, obviously, but let’s get to what this shutdown means for you and millions of Americans. First, there are thousands of workers facing threats of mass layoffs by the Trump administration
administration.
We haven’t seen anything like this in any recent shutdown. Members of the military will be forced to work without pay for the duration of the shutdown, not to mention the millions of employees
who will likely be laid off from the federal government and not be paid until the shutdown is over. They also warned.
That is the foot protection that your family gets.
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The way they’re putting it, it’s going to have a significant impact. And then you have the U.S. Travel Association.
It’s a warning of flight delays, long security lines, and potential staffing shortages,
As if airports didn’t already have enough problems. During the recent shutdown, they lost $400,000 a day.
Something to remember here is that the longer the shutdown goes on, the more important programs and benefits will start to disappear.
Like Snap benefits, which you know, are often referred to as food stamps with a supplement.
The Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program, which will run out of funds and may be unable to provide food to needy children and parents.
Yes, the outlook is bleak as this goes on, but not everything is closed.
Essential services that are considered IRS will stay open thanks to funding.
The Democrats pushed for the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. Visas and Passports.
They will continue. Most Justice Department staff will stay on. Social Security checks are always a big question. They will still go out.
FEMA's response to NOAA forecasters, they will stay on. Veterans Care and Veterans Services. They will also continue.
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Yes, there’s a lot to unpack, and all of them can be solved. Only Congress is doing its job.
But the bigger point here is that the longer the shutdown, the more uncertain funding becomes for services that are far and wide. Sarah? That was a really good breakdown.
And we should also mention that President Trump has threatened to make mass layoffs even more complicated,
even for permanent, federal workers. So we’ll see what happens. And as you said, that’s literally Congress’s number one job,
which is to fund the government. Thanks a lot, Kate. Okay. Today, the Senate is expected to vote again on a Republican-backed bill that would fund the government for seven weeks.
GOP leaders say there are multiple opportunities to keep the government open. Democratic leadership met with the president for the first time in his second term, and no deal was reached. CNN's Alaina Tree
Joining us now. Alaina, the blame game is getting really, really dirty. The President is leading the way, posting a racist fake video of Democratic leadership saying things He said no. What are you learning about where we're going here? Yeah, I mean,
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If that video isn't a sense, Sarah is telling us how far apart the two sides are, I don't know what is. I mean, look, I think what happened yesterday, the president said at the end.
That he would meet with congressional leaders, particularly, of course, the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate, was a way for him to try to show what his message is, what he's trying to communicate to the American people, which is that we are.
Ready to negotiate but not with the threat of a government shutdown. And that was really the message we heard when he left. Clearly, the meeting at the White House yesterday was not a good one. We heard from Republican leadership,
including the vice president, trying to describe what the Democrats are doing in their eyes as hostage-taking. Listen to how the vice president put it.
You don't put a gun to the head of the American people and say, unless you do exactly what the Senate and House Democrats want you to do, we're going to shut down your government.
So I think we're headed for a shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing.
I hope they change their mind, but we'll see. Now look, Sarah, I've had a lot of conversations with people in this building behind me about all of this.
And I can tell you specifically that when it comes to President Donald Trump, he doesn't see a shutdown as bad messaging for Republicans. And that's what it's been like for a few days now.
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It became clear that this is where Congress was going. The president and many in the West Wing believe that the Democrats will be blamed for the shutdown.
That's usually how it works. When you know they're the minority party in Congress. However, of course, we have to see what I mean by that; many people recognize well
that Republicans not only control the White House, but both houses of Congress, but there are people there. You put politics into it. There are a lot of Republicans
and especially people close to the president, who believe that this could be good politics for Republicans as it comes to the midterms.
Really trying to blame all of this on the Democrats and so not much has happened.
The White House is trying to turn things around. Yes, they want to avoid a government shutdown, they argue, but they also acknowledge that it could be politically beneficial.
They benefit in the long run. Of course, we'll have to see if that's really the case when a shutdown is likely to happen less than 17 hours from now.
Okay. And what impact does that have on the economy as a whole? We'll see what happens.
A lot to unpack there. Thank you very much, John. Okay. Now, here, Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, he's the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. Senator, thank you for being with us.
What's the latest you've heard from your leadership on the negotiations? Overnight, is there any chance that this can be avoided? A chance for some kind of temporary recovery. But here's the framework. Republicans pass this big,
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An ugly scam with a bill that would do a lot of damage to American families to give them tax breaks for billionaires. And Democrats are saying,
Hey, we're not going to sign on to the agenda of winning more billionaires for families. We want an agenda where families thrive and billionaires pay their fair share.
One is health care, because very soon, people are going to face double-digit increases in insurance. And for those who buy in the exchange in Oregon,
That's going to be a 65 percent increase, which is an average of $1,300 per family per year.
More every year for health care. So there's going to be a major disaster in health care.
We're saying we're fighting for families. That has to be addressed. And the other, John, is the power of the purse. The president is taking power away from Congress by slowing down funding, freezing funding, withholding funding, and this imaginary thing called a recession, where he basically,
in a partisan way, undoing what was agreed upon, on a bipartisan basis. And that's unacceptable. It goes against the whole vision of our Constitution.
And checks and balances. So those two factors are huge. You know, the first thing you said is that you always have a chance to recover.
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I spoke to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries last night, and that's all I asked him about. Listen. What about the 7- to 10-day short-term funding bill
so you can keep talking about it? It'll keep the government open for the next 7 to 10 days. And maybe you can keep talking about Obamacare subsidies and things like that. We know that when it comes
to this issue, it needs to be addressed immediately. This sounds like a voice from the House and a temporary impasse. What do you think about that?
So that sounds pretty definitive. But I think if you get a message from the President that we heard you, we're going to start respecting the Constitution over the power of the purse.
We're going to work out the details, and we'll hear from you on health care. We won't convey that you've preemptively damaged the current idea of Decra yesterday.
It's valuable. Well, if we hear a strong case, it'll take us a few days to work out the details. But you've raised two important issues, and we're going to address them.
That would be the only basis for a short-term recovery. Interesting. It seems like you're leaving the door a little open. Certainly more so than Hakeem Jeffries, for whom this was completely, 100% the last night.
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You have news from your state, right? Because President Trump says he’s sending the National Guard or National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
What’s the situation on the ground there? How would you assess the level of violence that the president is seeing compared to what would normally happen? I was around facilities like this? Over the weekend.
I saw three women protesting. There have been several incidents in the last few months, but nothing without the usual police work. Portland is one of the 68 largest cities in the country,
with the highest drop in homicide rates in the country. It’s down 20 percent. In fact, it’s cut in half. And they’re peaceful and recovering. And businesses are coming back to the city.
We’re recovering from the riots that Trump encouraged and incited in 2020.
And we’re like, stay away. And my message when we had a press conference with all the leaders on Friday night was, Don't have a press conference.
The president is trying to distract from all the terrible things he's been doing across the country, making the country poorer and poorer for eight months. And he wants to distract.
With this kind of motivation for violence, he can use violence to justify more authoritarian control. So this is an hour of the authoritarian playbook in Portland, don't go to the toilet. Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon, we appreciate you.
