On the Throughline podcast from NPR, what it takes to report on war.
Great sleep deprivation.
There's no privacy.
You know, how far can I go with this?
When journalists are silenced, the truth is going to be buried with them.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
Today is the sixth day of the federal government shutdown.
There's no end in sight.
Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the impasse.
President Trump says the shutdown means that he is laying off federal workers.
He says that has already started.
Thank you in place right now.
It's all because of the Democrats.
The Democrats are causing the loss of a lot of jobs with their It's a shutdown.
It's their shutdown, not our shutdown.
It's their shutdown.
Both sides are deeply set in their positions.
Republicans are demanding that Democrats agree to a stopgap bill to lift the shutdown.
Democrats say Republicans need to first rescind their deep cuts to federal health care programs.