Tonight, the shutdown fallout spreads with no sign of a deal to reopen the government,

a warning from the House Speaker on what it could mean for the country.

Then the president steps back from his threat to impose huge new tariffs on China,

while new data shows just how much his trade war will cost consumers.

The Justice Department pushes to prosecute Trump's opponents, and one

issues a warning about the threat to democracy and the rule of law as the 11th hour gets

underway on this Monday night. Good evening. I'm Antonia Hilton in tonight for Stephanie Rule.

It is day 267 of the second Trump administration.

The federal government has been shut down for nearly two weeks now, and there's no real reason to think this is going to end anytime soon.

The House isn't even set to meet again for another week. The Senate will vote on a clean funding bill again tomorrow night, and it's

expected to fail for the eighth time. And for the first time in our country, the White House has

responded to a shutdown by seeing it as a window to fire thousands of federal workers. Those cuts

have decimated the Department of Education, specifically the staff working on special education services,

as well as staff at the CDC. Within a day, the White House began walking back some of those CDC

firings. Here's what Speaker Mike Johnson said today about the cuts. We know the president moved forward

with mass layoffs. So we are also learning there were significant cuts to staff of the special

education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

I haven't seen the specifics of that, and I don't know. I do know that each of the cabinet

secretaries were asked to assist OMB to determine what the most essential programs are and what

the priorities are for the policies and all of that.

And I've been so busy on all this.

I've not had a chance to dig into the details of each division and how it's happened.

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