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Pres. Trump says federal government shutdown 'likely' with GOP & Democrats still far apart on what should be in funding extension


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A federal government shutdown is looking like it is going to happen with President Donald Trump and Republicans and Democrats in Congress sticking to their positions about what must be included and not included in a funding extension, and no compromise agreement in sight that can get the needed 60 votes in the Senate to pass; President Trump and Pfizer CEO announce a deal to sell Pfizer prescription drugs at lower prices to Medicaid patients; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump tell hundreds of senior U.S. military officials meeting at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia there will now be “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physical fitness and “woke” culture in the military is

over. President Trump also says he wants the military to use U.S. crime-ridden cities as training grounds; A Senate hearing on the Quiet Skies airline passenger screening program and allegations of weaponization by the Biden Administration, with people put on terrorist watch lists for political reasons and not because of any real threat to public safety; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool  that Great Britain faces a "battle for the soul of the country" against the rise of the populist far right represented by UK Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.

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