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Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director, listens as he addresses members of the media outside the West Wing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

Transportation Security Administration worker guides travelers at a security checkpoint in Denver International Airport Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

The government shutdown is putting a renewed spotlight on the cracks in the US aviation system

FILE - The Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The Latest: Shutdown woes continue

FILE - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify at the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 22, 2022. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Hogan Gidley, left, walking to a press conference as the government shutdown heads toward its third week, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: No end in sight to government shutdown as House speaker refuses to negotiate

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., praises President Donald Trump's peacemaking efforts leading to a ceasefire pausing two years of war in the Gaza Strip, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

FILE - President Lyndon Johnson, at podium, speaks in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, before to signing the Voting Rights Act, Aug. 6, 1965. (AP Photo, File)

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

The entrance to the Northwest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center is seen, Aug. 13, 2025, in Tacoma, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Feeling hopeless in custody, many drop claims to remain in the US, leave voluntarily

A Fox Weather reporter films in front of a house at risk of collapse in the midst of a storm, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, in Buxton, N.C. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)

New Jersey declares state of emergency as nor'easter approaches

Governor JB Pritzker talks to media at a news conference in Chicago, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

The Latest: Trump says officials opposing Guard deployment should be jailed

FILE - Former FBI Director James Comey, arrivex to testify under subpoena behind closed doors before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Latest: Comey pleads not guilty in Justice Department case accusing him of lying to Congress

University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Ángel F. Adames Corraliza sits for a portrait in his office at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in Madison, Wis., Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants

FILE - The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ+ kids

Attorney General Pam Bondi is sworn in before a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Latest: Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown

Planes land and take off at Harry Reid International Airport, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Staffing shortages cause more US flight delays as government shutdown reaches 7th day

Military personnel in uniform, with the Texas National Guard patch on, are seen at the U.S. Army Reserve Center, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Elwood, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

National Guard members from Texas are in Illinois in Trump's latest move to send troops to cities

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on the Capitol Hill, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Government shutdown entering sixth day as Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse

Law enforcement officers stand after deploying tear gas outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility during a protest on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon

FILE - A haul truck is seen after being loaded with coal by a mechanized shovel at the Spring Creek mine, in this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, near Decker, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., return to their offices after meeting with reporters on the third day of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The GOP says it's winning the shutdown. Some fear Trump's cuts may change that

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