On this week's Wild Card podcast, Nick Offerman says when he fell in love with his wife,
Meghan Mullally, he couldn't believe it.
It was like if Meryl Streep or something showed up where it's just like,
I think I'm Meryl Streep and I are in love.
But that doesn't seem possible or right.
Watch or listen to that Wild Card conversation on the NPR app,
YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
The federal government shutdown is almost four weeks old.
The Senate will hold another on a spending bill that could end it, but it's not expected to pass.
Meanwhile,
the ongoing legal battle between unions representing federal employees and the Trump administration is escalating.
NPR's Andrea Hsu reports.
The unions are trying to stop the administration from laying off more federal workers during the shutdown.
Last Wednesday, the unions won a temporary restraining order,
pausing layoffs in federal programs and offices where they represent workers or have members.
But the Trump administration determined that the pause cause does not apply to workers who no longer have collective bargaining rights under an executive order issued by President Trump in March,
even though that order is under legal dispute.
The judge overseeing the case has now told the government it must halt layoffs of federal employees who were part of bargaining units the administration no longer recognizes,
as well as those who remain union members.