#government shutdown

#government shutdown

ARLINGTON, Va. Only two states, Virginia and New Jersey, hold their elections for governor the year after the presidential election and the year before the midterms. The races are often seen as a test of voter sentiment, but just weeks out from the election, two late-emerging issues in Virginia may be reshaping that state's contest. Abigail Spanberger, a former member of Congress, is the Democratic candidate, and Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican candidate, is the commonwealth's current lieutenant governor.

The Department of Energy just canceled a billion dollars to the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub. Part of that covers your state of Montana, and your governor actually praised it when it was happening, saying it was going to create good-paying Montana jobs and boost American-made energy. They just yanked a billion from that. So is that taking away good-paying jobs in Montana?

"I expect that when the government opens that very soon after you're going to see what President Trump's plan for farmers is, but it's really quite clever and generous. I can say that,"

A startling message came over the radio from an air traffic control tower near Los Angeles less than a week into the federal government shutdown: "The tower is closed due to staffing." Without enough air traffic controllers to guide planes into and out of Hollywood Burbank Airport, the tower went dark for almost six hours on Oct. 6, leaving pilots to coordinate their movements among themselves.

Imagine this: You've got just an hour before your flight starts boarding, you're schlepping a carry-on backpack stuffed to the brim, your passport's in one hand, the handle to a suitcase with a faulty wheel is in the other, and you're about to finally go through security-when a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem whining about Democrats starts blaring. That'd be my last straw.

I have not met with her, but it does seem to many of us that she's had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks in terms of her perspective on both the Epstein files and also Katy, we know one of the reasons why Republicans refuse to come back while they remain on vacation all across the country is because they don't want to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, because she would represent the 218th signature for an up-or-down vote on releasing the Epstein files,