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Fiscal News Roundup
- "The House Is Done": Johnson Rules Out Stand-Alone Vote on Paying Troops During Shutdown — Axios
- Trump Says Bill Guaranteeing Military Pay During Shutdown 'Probably Will Happen' — The Hill
- House Dems Prep Letter to Johnson Urging Vote on Troop Pay Bill — Politico
- Military Families Brace for Missed Paychecks as Shutdown Impacts Are Already Accumulating — CNN
- Speaker Clashes With Dem Senators Over Epstein Files Amid Shutdown — Politico
- White House Draws Out Mass Federal Firings Timeline as GOP Grows Squeamish in Funding Fight — CNN
- The Trump Admin Said Furloughed Feds Were Not Guaranteed Back Pay. On Wednesday, It Sent Notices Saying They Were — Government Executive
- 'Do Your Damn Job': Federal Worker Union Leaders Slam Congress, Trump — Associated Press
- Trump's Off-Script Comments Cause Shutdown Headaches for GOP — Politico
- How Businesses Are Already Feeling Shutdown Pain — Wall Street Journal
- IMF Chief Warns of Economic Uncertainty and Offers This Advice: 'Buckle Up' — Associated Press
- Court Ruling Allows Medicare to Negotiate Prices for Larger Number of Drugs — STAT
- Health Agencies Lose 'the Backbone Folks Who Can Keep Things Running' to Indian Health Deployments — Politico
- These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department — ProPublica
- California's Newsom Signs Bill to Curb Private Equity's Role in Healthcare — Wall Street Journal
- Treasury Department Defends Trump $1 Coin Plan — The Hill
- Bob Ross Paintings to Be Auctioned to Raise Money for Public TV Stations After Funding Cuts — CBS News
Views and Analysis
- Health Care Politics Bolster Democrats in Shutdown Fight — Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse, New York Times
- What the Shutdown Is Really About — Ezra Klein and Neera Tanden, New York Times
- This Shutdown Is as Pointless as All the Others — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- Why the White House Might Dial Up the Shutdown Pain — Washington Post Editorial Board
- Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did — Alex Shephard, American Prospect
- Will Air-Traffic Controllers End the Government Shutdown? — Jeff Wise, New York
- What Is the Price of Gold Telling Us? — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- The San Francisco Fed President's Case for More Rate Cuts — Courtenay Brown and Neil Irwin, Axios
- Medicare's Real Fiscal Crisis Is Much Worse than Trust Fund Insolvency — Romina Boccia and Ritvik Thakur, CATO Institute
- Can We Replace the Property Tax? — Jared Walczak, Kyle Hulehan, Dan Carvajal, Tax Foundation (podcast)
- Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis — David Dayen, American Prospect
Fiscal News Roundup
- White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers — New York Times
- Trump Administration Threatens No Back Pay for Federal Workers in Shutdown — Associated Press
- Trump Says He'll Unveil Permanent Cuts to Government Programs Soon — CNN
- Congress Erupts Over Trump's Shutdown Backpay Threat — Axios
- Republican Leaders Clash on Emergency Troop Pay Vote — Politico
- Top House Democrat Rules Out Short-Term Extension of Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies as Nonstarter — CNN
- GOP Senator Says There's No Off-Ramp to End the Shutdown This Week — CNN
- Airport Delays Hit Second Day Amid Government Shutdown — NBC News
- E.U. Proposes 50% Steel Tariffs as Trump Effect Ripples Around World — New York Times
- Trump Administration's Farm Aid Plans Delayed by Shutdown — Politico
- Trump Administration Cuts Federal Support for Disabled Americans Facing Homelessness — Axios
- Trump Administration Considers Sale of Federal Student Loan Debt — Politico
- For Older Americans, the Cost of Poverty Is 9 Years of Life, Study Finds — CBS News
Views and Analysis
- Trump Is Using Mass Firings as a Shutdown Cudgel. Democrats Aren't Flinching — Jordain Carney and Nicholas Wu, Politico
- Why Democrats Are Casting the Government Shutdown as a Health Care Showdown — Amanda Seitz, NPR
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Complicated the Gop's Shutdown Messaging — Aaron Blake, CNN
- Why Some Federal Workers Aren't Scared by the Threat of Shutdown Layoffs — Andrea Hsu, NPR
- Why Silicon Valley Might Start Sweating the Shutdown Soon — Christine Mui, Juliann Ventura and Yasmin Khorram, Politico
- Six Surgeons General: It's Our Duty to Warn the Nation About RFK Jr. — Jerome Adams et al, Washington Post
- Trump's Bizarre War on New York City Infrastructure — Ross Barkan, New York
- Why Trump's Troop Deployments to US Cities Are Such a Big Deal — Stephen Collinson, CNN
- Best Evidence Yet That the Dollar Isn't Dead — Daniel Moss, Bloomberg