Funding fights, Epstein files: inside Congress’s busy to-do list

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  Good morning. It's Wednesday, September 3rd.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, Brazil's coup trial comes to a head,

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  Trump's plan to fine immigrants under deportation orders,

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  and a beloved fall classic that could soon be more expensive.

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  But first, Congress returned from recess yesterday with a pileup of priorities to tackle.

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  Today, we're looking at three of the biggest issues coming down the tracks.

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  The possibility of a government shutdown at the end of the month,

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  a bipartisan push to release more Department of Justice files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,

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  and a possible change to the Senate confirmation process.

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  First,

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  lawmakers have until the end of the month to agree on a bill to fund the government through the end of the year or risk a shutdown.

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  that is not an atypical place for Congress to find itself.

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  But Sahil Kapoor, a senior national politics reporter for NBC News,

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  told us that things are not starting off on the right foot.

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  There is no framework, no agreement on the way forward here.

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  The two parties are far apart and they're moving even further apart.

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  The first thing that generally happens in this situation is that they agree on the overall amount that the government's going to spend in the upcoming fiscal year,

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  and then they agree on how to allocate it.

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