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We asked 1,000 Americans who is to blame for the shutdown. Here’s what they said.

Oct 02, 2025 8:01 pm - How concerned are Americans about the partial shutdown of the federal government and whom do they blame for causing it? The Washington Post texted a nationally representative sample of 1,010 people on Wednesday to ask.
The government shuts down, and Trump goes online — very online

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Oct 02, 2025 7:34 pm - On Thursday morning, as thousands of federal employees stayed home and faced potential layoffs because of the government shutdown, President Donald Trump got right to work on social media.He started by sharing praise from supporters. Then he falsely claimed that “DEMOCRATS WANT TO GIVE YOUR HEALTHCARE MONEY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS.” And then he announced that he would meet with his top budget adviser to figure out where to make permanent cuts to federal programs that “are a political SCAM.”
Shutdown guts US cybersecurity agency at perilous time

By Joseph Menn
Oct 02, 2025 7:27 pm - The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric grid, water supply and other critical services from hacking has furloughed most of its already trimmed-down staff in the government shutdown, just as a decade-old law giving companies leeway to collaborate on cyberdefense expired.
Firings and resignations roil US attorney’s office prosecuting Comey

By Salvador Rizzo
Oct 02, 2025 7:23 pm - Lawyers inside the high-profile U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting former FBI director James B. Comey are unnerved by what they see as an unprecedented push by President Donald Trump to inject politics into their staffing and charging decisions, according to three people familiar with the matter, a strategy they say could jeopardize national security investigations.
Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

By LISA MASCARO, JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM
Oct 02, 2025 7:21 pm - President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, saying he planned to meet with budget director Russ Vought to talk through “temporary or permanent” spending cuts that could set up a lose-lose dynamic for Democratic lawmakers.
Trump administration approval of new abortion drug infuriates the right

By Natalie Allison and Paige Winfield Cunningham
Oct 02, 2025 4:39 pm - The Trump administration has approved a new generic version of the mifepristone abortion pill, a decision made quietly by the Food and Drug Administration this week that is now prompting uproar among anti-abortion leaders.
Everybody in Washington hates a shutdown until it becomes a useful tool

By SEUNG MIN KIM
Oct 02, 2025 9:07 am - The U.S. government had shut down, and Donald Trump was calling on Democrats and Republicans to work together to get out of the mess.
Gaza death toll mounts as Hamas considers its response to Trump's peace proposal

By WAFAA SHURAFA
Oct 02, 2025 8:21 am - Israeli strikes overnight and into Thursday killed at least 13 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to hospitals, as Hamas was still considering its response to U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal for ending the nearly two-year war.
Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now

By MARK SHERMAN
Oct 01, 2025 7:34 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now, declining to act on the Trump administration’s effort to im...
Health care is key for Democrats in shutdown fight. Here’s what to know.

By Niha Masih, Bart Schaneman and Mariana Alfaro
Oct 01, 2025 7:23 pm - The federal government shut down early Wednesday following an acrimonious deadlock in Congress over spending in which Democrats have sought to put a spotlight on health care subsidies and who is eligible to receive coverage.Senate Democrats rejected a Republican-led proposal that would have extended funding at current levels until Nov. 21, voting nearly along party lines. The shutdown is the first since January 2019, when President Donald Trump was previously in office.

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