On today's show, on today's show, the Epstein files, ICE, and the government shutdown, this is the mop-up.

I'm David Feldman in New York City. Thank you so much for finding me.

We are in the middle of a partial government shutdown, three days.

Essential workers, those who work for the military or Homeland Security, for example,

must show up to work, but they don't get paid until the government reopens. Non-essential workers

are ordered to stay home, and they too won't get paid during a shutdown. They will most likely

get paid for not working once and if the government

reopens. That's usually how it works. The partial shutdown began on February 1st, which was when

the continuing resolution passed in November expired. Budgets are supposed to be passed on October 1st

and failure to achieve that results in either a shutdown,

which happened on October 1st, and then a continuing resolution to reopen the government temporarily,

usually based on the previous year's spending. The government reopened in November, and three of the 12 appropriations bills were signed into law,

leaving nine that had to be passed.

Remember, our budget is made up of 12 appropriations bills.

On January 23rd, Trump signed three additional spending bills into law that left six more spending bills. On January 23rd, Trump signed three additional spending bills into law that left six more

spending bills that had to be passed before the continuing resolution expired. The House on January 22nd

passed the remaining six funding bills all bundled together in what they call a minibus.

The House passed this.

Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader Democrat, urged his caucus not to vote for this

spending bill.

He was willing to risk a government shutdown because one of those six spending bills inside the minibus was a $10 billion

funding package for ICE, which in light of the killing of Renee Good on January 7th,

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