Overview
- Facing its first such cutback during a funding lapse, the NNSA began furloughing about 1,400 employees while roughly 400 remain to safeguard an estimated 5,177 U.S. warheads, according to the Energy Department.
- California officials warned November SNAP/CalFresh disbursements could be delayed, with Governor Gavin Newsom saying millions of recipients, largely children and seniors, may miss benefits if the government is not reopened by Thursday.
- Germany’s union Ver.di said about 12,000 local civilian employees of U.S. forces risk missed pay and urged Berlin to cover wages at sites including Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Wiesbaden and Stuttgart if U.S. funds do not arrive.
- Republican tensions grew as Marjorie Taylor Greene cautioned that cutting Obamacare subsidies would spike premiums and imperil coverage, with analysts warning of electoral fallout for the GOP.
- A presidential claim that Democrats would spend $1.5 trillion on undocumented immigrants was flagged as false by fact-checkers, while Trump adviser Kevin Hassett predicted the shutdown could end this week.