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The federal government shutdown is nearly a month old.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers still cannot agree on a spending measure that would end it.
Most federal workers are not getting paid.
The largest union for these employees is demanding that Congress pass a spending measure immediately.
A federal judge in California holds a hearing today on President Trump's layoffs of some federal workers during the shutdown.
NPR's Andrea Shu reports the layoffs have been paused for the last two weeks.
The Trump administration has been pushing back against U.S.
District Judge Susan Ilston's decision to temporarily halt layoffs,
including at agencies that have yet to announce plans for layoffs.
The administration says the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case and that the unions have failed to show that they are suffering irreparable harm as a result of the administration's actions.
The federal employee unions that brought the case, meanwhile,
argue that federal workers are suffering emotional trauma as a result of the recent layoffs coming on top of funding and staffing cuts to their agencies earlier this year.
Andrea Shu and PR News.
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Melissa has kept its monsters strength overnight.
The top rated Category 5 hurricane has top sustained winds of 175 miles per hour.