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--:-- Shea Stevens: The government has run out of money, but some federal agencies, including the military and Social Security, will continue operating.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Senate Majority Leader John Thune blames the shutdown on Democrats refusing to endorse a stopgap bill.
--:-- John Thune: We didn't ask Democrats to swallow any new Republican policies. We didn't add partisan riders. We simply asked Democrats to extend existing funding levels to allow the Senate to continue the bipartisan appropriations work that we started.
--:-- Chuck Schumer: So now two times Republicans have failed to get enough votes to avoid a shutdown. They've got to sit down and negotiate with Democrats to come to a bill that both parties can support.
--:-- Chuck Schumer: Schumer says Democrats are insisting on the restoration of health care subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Meanwhile the Trump administration is instructing federal agencies to tell their workers to blame the partial shutdown on Democrats.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: But NPR Stephen Fowler reports that some ethics experts say that message may violate the law.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Federal employees across the government have been sent a message from the Office of Management and Budget. It reads in part that any lapse in government funding would be, quote, forced by congressional Democrats.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Legal experts say that message and a banner on the housing and urban development website that blames the, quote, radical left for the shutdown could violate ethics laws.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Republicans control both chambers of Congress but need Democratic support and the Senate to approve any government funding deal.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Beginning today, Planned Parenthood will stop providing abortions in Wisconsin, at least temporarily.
--:-- Sarah Lear: As Sarah Lear of Wisconsin Public Radio explains, the organization is pausing those services to avoid losing millions of dollars in federal funding.
--:-- Sarah Lear: For decades, U.S. law has banned using federal dollars to fund abortions. A provision in Trump's new tax and spending law goes farther than that.
--:-- Sarah Lear: It prohibits larger nonprofits from being reimbursed through Medicaid for any type of reproductive health service if that organization provides abortions.
--:-- Nicole Safar: Because Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin gets nearly two of its budget for Medicaid Planned Parenthood official Nicole Safar says the organization will halt abortions in this state starting October 1st.
--:-- Nicole Safar: We are trying to navigate an incredibly challenging political environment that President Trump has created and Republicans in Congress have created.
--:-- Nicole Safar: Safar says the group will be referring people seeking abortions to out-of-state and independent clinics.
--:-- Sarah Lear: For NPR News, I'm Sarah Lear in Madison.
--:-- Shea Stevens: President Trump says he's reached a deal with Pfizer to lower drug costs for Medicare and prescriptions sold directly to consumers.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The deal also calls for a new government-run website called TrumpRx.gov.
--:-- Shea Stevens: This is NPR.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will no longer tolerate service members with beards, excess body weight, and woke ideology.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: Hexas told top military brass summoned to Virginia from around the world Tuesday that combatants must meet the highest standards.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: He says women who do not meet male physical standards for combat will be excluded from those roles and will no longer.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: And there will be no religious or medical exemptions for troops.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: Hexas says the changes are meant to fix what he called decades of decay.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Colombia foreign minister has renounced her U visa Rosa Villa Vincencio is protesting the U State Department decision to revoke the visa of Colombia president following his participation in a pro protest in New York.
--:-- Shea Stevens: A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the central Philippines has left dozens killed and many others injured.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: Michael Sullivan has this report.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: The epicenter of the earthquake was about 10 miles offshore of Bogo, a coastal city of roughly 90,000 in Cebu province.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: And it's Bogo that's borne the brunt of the quake.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: Residents fled their homes into the night when the quake struck just before 10 p.m. local time, cutting power in many areas.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: Rescue workers are now struggling to reach those in need, including residents in a mountain village badly damaged by a landslide.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: Cebu and other nearby areas are still recovering from a storm on Friday.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: That left dozens dead and caused the evacuation of tens of thousands more.
--:-- Michael Sullivan: For NPR News, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai.
--:-- Shea Stevens: This is NPR News.
