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#government-shutdown

The FAA anticipates that the airport's air traffic control tower will be without staff until 10 p.m. Monday, according to spokesperson Kristen Alsop. The tower was without staff starting at 4:15 p.m. Due to the government shutdown, air traffic controllers are working without pay. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that the FAA was seeing a small uptick in air traffic control workers calling in sick during the shutdown.

It's a stylized picture of droopy-mouthed Donald Trump, his face Mao-red, saturation cranked way up, details obliterated in an onslaught of digital filters-an effect the kids call "deep fried." Trump is flanked by oversize emojis-the laughing-crying face and the somber-and-downcast face with prayer hands-and spanning the top and bottom of the frame are the words BRO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT.

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has been closed since Saturday evening (4 October) and will remain shuttered while the shutdown of the US federal government continues. The NGA-the seventh-most-visited art institution in the world according to The Art Newspaper's most recent survey of global museum attendance, with nearly 4 million visitors in 2024-receives the bulk of its funding from the federal government. In its congressional-funding request for fiscal year 2025, it sought over $215m in government funds.

Look, as I said, unfortunately, there's going to be a lot of pain inflicted. There already is on the American public, on our troops who are not being paid, again on women and young children who depend on critical food assistance, Leavitt replied, adding: We hate to see this, and in fact, the Office of Management and Budget is trying to do everything they can to find funds to get out the door for these vulnerable populations in our country.

You have a bunch of yellow tape in front of some national parks, government agencies shutting down, disgruntled government employees who are not getting paid and run into personal finance issues. And then when the dust settles, it seems like it's all over. The employees are receiving back pay, so they get paid for all the money that they missed out on.

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage led all lenders with 464 loans in September, capturing a 21% market share. Finance of America (FOA) followed with 411 loans (18.5%), while Longbridge Financial logged 365 loans (16.5%). The three companies accounted for about 56% of all HECM endorsements between October 2024 and September 2025, the data shows. Guild Mortgage saw the largest monthly gain, jumping from 38 endorsements in August to 69 in September, followed by South River Mortgage, which increased from 54 to 78.

Instead, what we do have is quite a bit of moving and shaking in the corporate world. In banking today, regional bank Fifth Third ( Nasdaq: FITB) says it will buy rival Comerica ( NYSE: CMA) in a $10.9 billion, all-stock transaction. If the merger goes through it will create America's ninth largest bank. Fifth Third stock is up 1.5% on the news, and Comerica shares are up more than 17%.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government as the shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday. President Donald Trump, when asked on Sunday night when federal workers would be fired as he has threatened, told reporters: It's taking place right now, and it's all because of the Democrats.

In the duel of cross-accusations at the heart of the government shutdown that has paralyzed the United States since October 1 and shows no clear end in sight, each side of the political debate fires from the position they find most comfortable. Democrats present themselves as defenders of affordable health care, while Republicans portray them as protectors of undocumented immigrants when they falsely claim that the federal gridlock is due to the Democrats' insistence on spending $20 billion on healthcare for migrants.

We're doing that critical work, Johnson replied before pivoting to criticize Democrats. We have to keep the government open in order to have those bipartisan debates and discussions. The simple CR that we passed in the House, more than two weeks ago, does exactly that. It is a clean CR. It's only 24 pages in length. It's the simplest thing that's ever been done, and it's exactly what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and all the rest of them [previously] said must be done.

Zoom out: The gathering in DC stems from the Trump administration's plan to gut funding, while a government shutdown has already furloughed 85% of NASA staff. The White House has even floated mass firings during the shutdown, putting long-term missions and jobs at risk. Meanwhile, China is accelerating: planning a Mars Sample Return by 2028, a major Jupiter mission, a Venus atmosphere probe, and an asteroid defense swarm.

What is the point of the government? Is the point of the government to help people, and provide them with basic services to stay alive? Or is the point of the government to make sure millionaires and billionaires get even richer?

"Trump 2028," they said, situated across from the seated lawmakers, Vice President JD Vance and several untouched Diet Cokes. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries leaned over to Vance, himself a potential 2028 contender, and quipped, "Hey, bro, you got a problem with this?" The room chuckled in response. "It was the randomest thing in the world, because we're sitting there, we're having a serious conversation, and all of a sudden these two red hats appear," Jeffries recalled later at the Capitol.

Right above the shores of Huntington Beach, a retired American subsonic T-33 fighter jet darted across the blue canvas of a clear afternoon sky, leaving a spiraling plume of smoke in its wake. The aeronautical scene is a familiar sight in the coastal city this time of year. The Pacific Airshow, an annual three-day civilian and military aerobatic display that touts advanced maneuvers and aerial military might, has drawn thousands of aviation enthusiasts to Huntington Beach and the Australian Gold Coast since its inception in 2016.

"Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke, trans bullshit. Not even Black people want to vote for us anymore - even Latinos hate us. So we need new voters,"

I've never understood, by the way, the bizarre Republican obsession with taking healthcare away from people. I mean, first of all, I mean Mitt Romney did it in Massachusetts and it was a Republican idea. Like, people are getting free healthcare in the emergency room. Let's stop that. No freeloaders. We're Republicans. I just don't get it. How many times did they try to kill Obamacare? Then they did get rid of the mandate. It still survived. But this is the only leverage Democrats have.

And while some of those people have outside income they can rely on, like IRAs or 401(k) plans, for many seniors, Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, are extremely important. Without those annual raises, seniors would be almost guaranteed to fall behind on their expenses due to inflation. Over time, living costs tend to rise gradually. But if Social Security benefits don't get boosted, the people who receive them have no way to keep up with those increases in the absence of other income.

Kennedy told Fox's Johnny Jones that while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is getting a lot of the blame for Wednesday's government shutdown, the group calling the shots is the socialist wing, which he said is spearheaded by Ocasio-Cortez. I don't mean any disrespect, said Kennedy, but based on her policies and beliefs, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is single-handedly trying to put an end to dumb blonde jokes.

How do you say that they take no pleasure in this and then the next minute say, Oh, they're just having fun and trolling people? This is a government shutdown. On one hand, you say this is very seriouspeople's jobs are on the line.

Republican lawmakers are reportedly split on the decision to attend a fundraiser at a luxury golf resort amid the contentious government shutdown. The shutdown went into effect earlier this week after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill. Though Republicans control the House and the Senate, they've pointed the blame at the Democratic Party and accused it of wanting to spend money to provide healthcare to illegal immigrants.

In a Friday appearance on Fox News, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said that 57% of people who identify themselves as MAGA republicans support an extension of Obama-era tax credits for those who buy their own health insurance through the ACA Marketplace. The statistic comes from a new poll published on Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which found that 78% of all adults support Congress in extending these tax credits, along with 57% of MAGA Republicans.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump shared a meme on Truth Social claiming that the Democratic Party is the party of "Satan." The post featured images of prominent Democratic members of Congress, including Sen. Chuck Schumer (New York), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (California), and others. Superimposed on the images are the words "THE PARTY OF HATE, EVIL, AND SATAN."

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell went off on the press over their lack of outrage over what he called President Donald Trump's publicly flaring madness this week. O'Donnell has consistently called out what he sees as Trump's growing incapacity, growing to a crescendo this week amid a series of escalating stumbles, a speech to military leaders, and social media antics around the government shutdown.

The White House and congressional Republicans say that Democratic lawmakers caused the federal government shutdown as part of an effort to extend health care benefits to undocumented immigrants. However, as several independent experts interviewed by NPR note, that claim is false. At the center of the standoff is the Trump administration's Working Families Tax Cut Act, also known as President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," signed into law in July.

I think this administration has been very clear, Kelly, that we're not going to tolerate waste, fraud, and abuse in our government. And we've also been very clear to point out when agencies or when programs do not align with this administration's values of putting our country first, Leavitt replied, adding: You've seen that with USAID and in various other cases where there's been cuts made or funding has been slashed.