Overview

• A partial federal shutdown is in effect after the Senate rejected a Republican stopgap funding bill late Tuesday.
• Republican leaders J.D. Vance and Mike Johnson say Democrats conditioned funding on restoring healthcare for illegal immigrants, a charge Democrats call false.
• Anchors on MSNBC, ABC and CNN said federal law bars undocumented immigrants from federally subsidized programs and that the Democratic proposal does not change that.
• MSNBC cut away from live remarks by Vance and Johnson for on-air fact checks, and CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Hakeem Jeffries about provisions affecting asylum seekers, TPS recipients and emergency Medicaid reimbursements.
• Right-leaning analyses, including from the Heritage Foundation, argue the Democrats’ continuing resolution would roll back July’s OBBBA limits on eligibility and ACA credits, while Vance advances a 'money is fungible' argument about indirect state effects.