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Fiscal News Roundup
- Democrats Say Trump Needs to Be Involved in Shutdown Talks. He's Shown Little Interest in Doing So — Associated Press
- Senate Democrats Blast Trump's Lack of Urgency on a Shutdown Deal — Roll Call
- Senate GOP Leader Digs In on Demand That Democrats Vote to End Shutdown Before Action on Health Care Subsidies — CNN
- It's 'Too Late' to Extend ACA Subsidies Without Major Disruptions, Some States and Lawmakers Say — Politico
- Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States — New York Times
- Army Corps of Engineers Pauses $11 Billion in Projects, Including in 4 Democratic Cities, Budget Chief Says — CBS News
- Top House Republican Warns Agency Managing US Nuclear Stockpile Must Cut 80% of Staff During Shutdown — CNN
- Food Stamp Benefits May Run Out in November, Officials Warn — New York Times
- Federal Workers File Most Jobless Claims Since Last Shutdown — Bloomberg
- The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for Fossil Fuels — New York Times
- Trump Administration to Pay Some ICE and T.S.A. Agents During Shutdown — New York Times
- US Helps Sink World's First Global Carbon Tax After Threatening Sanctions Against Countries Supporting It — CNN
- Trump Says Threatened Tariffs on China 'Not Sustainable' — Bloomberg
- Trump Immigration Plan Could Cut Workforce by 15M Through 2035, Study Says — Axios
- Former NIH Leaders Lament 'Constant Chaos' at the Agency, and Caution It's Not Over — STAT
- U.S. Stakes Taxpayer Money on Big Argentina Bet — New York Times
Views and Analysis
- Trump's Military Pay Move Puts Congress in the Back Seat on Spending — Paul M. Krawzak, Roll Call
- American Farmers Are Hurting. Trump's Trade War Is Making It Worse — Scott Horsley, NPR
- Unsubsidized Health Insurance Is Unaffordable — Caitlin Owens, Axios
- 'Roots Are So Deep': The GOP Is Straining to Get Past Its Obamacare Morass — Benjamin Guggenheim, Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill, Politico
- Deregulation Can Make Medications Cheaper — Charles L. Hooper and Solomon S. Steiner, Wall Street Journal
- After First Missed Paycheck, Federal Workers Call for Solidarity — Whitney Curry Wimbish and Emma Janssen, American Prospect
- Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money — Ryan Cooper and David Dayen, American Prospect
- Bessent Is Reverting to His Hedge Fund Ways With Argentina — Jonthan Levin, Bloomberg
- The Trump Economy Is Here, and It's So Much Worse Than Biden's — Monica Potts, New Republic
- Grocery Prices Are Rising. Trump's Focused on Everything Else — Ed Kilgore, New York
- How Boomers Blew Up the American Dream — Emily Holzknecht and Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times
Fiscal News Roundup
- This Is Asinine': Shutdown Bitterness Grips a Stalled Congress — Semafor
- Democrats Float a New Shutdown Demand: Reversing Trump's Mass Firings — Politico
- Thune Dangles Obamacare Vote After Shutdown Ends — Politico
- GOP's Latest Government Shutdown Scapegoat: No Kings Protests — Axios
- The Lonely House Republican Still Coming to Work During the Shutdown — New York Times
- Thune Signals White House Is Flexible on Rolling Back Shutdown Moves — Politico
- Johnson Says He'll Debate Jeffries After Shutdown Ends — The Hill
- White House Releases Plan to Broaden Access to IVF, Fertility Drugs — Washington Post
- Massive NY Tunnel and Subway Projects Still Alive, Despite Trump's Claims — Politico
- NYC Schools Sue US Education Officials Over $47M Grant Cuts Tied to Transgender Policies — Associated Press
- Energy Department Offers $1.6 Billion Loan Guarantee to Upgrade Transmission Lines Across Midwest — Associated Press
- Food Stamp Funds to Dry Up If Shutdown Persists, USDA Warns — Bloomberg
- Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups — Wall Street Journal
- States Jostle Over $50 Billion Rural Health Fund as Trump's Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble — CBS News
- Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs — New York Times
- How FEMA Is Forcing Disaster-Struck Towns to Fend for Themselves — New York Times
- California to Begin Selling Affordable State-Branded Insulin Beginning Next Year — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- Why This Shutdown Is Different - and Shows Signs of Lasting — Naftali Bendavid, Washington Post
- The Impossible Politics That Mean the Shutdown Is Set to Drag On — Siobhan Hughes and Lindsay Wise, Wall Street Journal
- The Shutdown Is Only the First Battle in the War Over Trump's 2026 Budget — Robert J. Shapiro, Washington Monthly
- Team Trump Is Winning the Policy Battle but Losing the Messaging War — Keith Naughton, The Hill
- Two Weeks on, US Shutdown Enters 'Stupid' Stage — Burgess Everett, Semafor
- Democrats Set a Shutdown Snare for Trump, but May Walk Into His Trap Instead — Stephen Collinson, CNN
- Government Shutdown? No, an Efficiency Audit — Daniel Huff, Wall Street Journal
- America Bet the Farm on Soybeans. Then Came Trump — Naomi Bethune, American Prospect
- An Employer Compensation Tax for Social Security and Medicare — Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- Yes Kings? Republicans Revel in Trump's Imperial Presidency — David Weigel, Semafor
- Republicans, Ditch MAGA and Return to the Basics — John C. Danforth and Rina Shah, Wall Street Journal