Good morning. It's Wednesday, October 1st. I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, top military brass gather for a rare politically charged summit.
Public media cuts finally go into effect, and an incredible fertility breakthrough.
But first, politicians have failed in their stop gap funding talks, and a government shut down has begun.
Last night, both Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and majority leader John Thune left the door open to more negotiations.
We certainly are willing to have negotiations.
There's no problem with that, but they've got to be bipartisan and they've got to have real input from both sides.
Tonight was evidence that there is some movement there
and will allow our Democrat colleagues to have additional opportunities to vote
on whether or not to keep the government open, or in the case of tomorrow, now probably, to open it back up.
Some Democrats like John Fetterman of Pennsylvania were late to defect from the rest of their party and back the Republican resolution,
but most held firm, demanding healthcare subsidy extensions as a condition of the deal.
We've spoken a lot about the political jostling that's gone on.
But let's break down what it means to now be in a shutdown.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that as many as 750,000 federal workers could be furloughed.
You might not notice an immediate impact because essential services are expected to stay open,
but the longer the shutdown goes on, the more likely you are to see the effects.
For example, air traffic controllers and most TSA employees will remain on the job, even if their paychecks aren't getting issued.
But in the last significant government shutdown in 2018 to 2019, some of these workers staged sickouts to protest missed paychecks.