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--:-- Shea Stevens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The partial government shutdown will continue at least until Friday. Republicans are calling for passage of a temporary measure that would continue current spending through November 21st.
--:-- Mike Johnson: House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans have nothing more to negotiate.
--:-- Shea Stevens: In a scenario like this, if the Congress's hands are tied by the minority party who will not do the right thing, then the power shifts to the executive. That's not Mike Johnson doing that. That's Chuck Schumer doing that.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Democrats are insisting that any agreement include an extension of health care tax credits that expire at the end of the year.
--:-- Republican Leader: Republican leaders say those demands would likely lead to an increase in taxpayer-funded health care for undocumented immigrants.
--:-- Shea Stevens: An NPR analysis of federal data finds that the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has failed to deliver on its promises.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Details from NPR Stephen Fowler. Agencies ordered by DOGE to drastically slash their workforce over the last eight months are now hiring back hundreds of workers.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Despite DOGE's promise that cutting contracts and terminating leases would shrink the federal budget, Treasury data shows spending has increased by hundreds of billions of dollars.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: When it first launched this year, DOGE's savings and efficiency tracker was full of errors, overstatements, and unverifiable claims. That remains true today.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: The White House declined to answer NPR's questions about these shortcomings, but said President Trump was, quote, given a clear mandate to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse, and he is delivering on that commitment.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can keep her job at the central bank, at least for now. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in Cook's case in January.
--:-- Scott Horsley: President Trump has been trying to fire Lisa Cook, pointing to allegations from a Trump ally that Cook made false statements on a mortgage application.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Cook denies any wrongdoing. Her supporters say allowing Trump to oust a Fed governor would compromise the central bank's ability to set interest rates free from political interference.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Two lower courts sided with Cook and blocked the president from removing her. The Supreme Court opted not to overturn those decisions at least until he hears oral arguments early next year.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Trump has been waging a high campaign to get the Fed to cut interest rates more aggressively.
--:-- Scott Horsley: A group of former Fed officials and Treasury secretaries say the central bank works best when it is insulated from that kind of political pressure.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Trump administration is eliminating billions of dollars in funding for infrastructure projects in New York City. The move comes after President Trump threatened to punish New York if voters there elect Democratic mayoral candidate Zoram Mamdani.
--:-- OMB Director: The head of the White House Office of Management and Budget says that the administration is trying to ensure that federal money is not used for diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
--:-- Shea Stevens: U.S. futures are flat in after-hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The death toll from the earthquake in the central Philippines has risen to at least 72, with nearly 300 others injured.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The quake struck an area near Cebu Province Tuesday, trapping an undetermined number of people beneath rubble in hard-hit BOGO and outlying rural areas.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Crews are using backhoes and sniffer dogs to locate survivors.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The U.S. government is working on a new advice on alcohol drinking. Existing guidelines recommend no more than two drinks per day for men and only one drink for women.
--:-- Will Stone: But as NPR Will Stone reports, there are questions about whether the updated advice will downplay the harms of alcohol.
--:-- Will Stone: Federal health officials were going to consider two different reports on alcohol. One of them from the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine found moderate drinking was associated with a lower risk of dying, including from cardiovascular disease.
--:-- Will Stone: The other study essentially came to the opposite conclusion, that even low levels of drinking increase your risk of dying for many causes, including cancer and stroke.
--:-- Will Stone: Scientists who worked on that report were told recently it would not be considered as part of the new guidelines.
--:-- Mike Marshall: Mike Marshall is with the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance. To be focused on making America healthy again without addressing alcohol is inexplicable.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not comment on why the report was being excluded.
--:-- Will Stone: Will Stone, NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Scientists have uncovered new types of organic molecules and icy geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The discovery bolsters the likelihood that the ocean world may contain conditions that could support life.
--:-- Shea Stevens: You're listening to NPR News.
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