Federal funds to keep the heat on this winter are stalled
Marketplace Morning Report
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4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As the weather gets colder, many lower-income Americans will depend on LIHEAP, a program that helps them heat their homes. Receiving LIHEAP assistance to keep the heat on was a reality for over 5 million American households in fiscal year 2024. But existing funds are running low, and future funds are stalled during the shutdown. Also: markets react to the continued federal shutdown, and the Trump administration plans to take stakes in several quantum computing companies.
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| 1:16.8 | Quantum leaps in federal government ownership of the private sector. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. There are published reports today that the Trump administration is planning to take stakes in several companies developing a new generation |
| 1:27.2 | of super fastfast computers using |
| 1:28.8 | what's called quantum technology. This would follow U.S. investments in other industries like |
| 1:33.9 | rare earth minerals and computer chip design and manufacturing. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzor |
| 1:38.8 | has the latest. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that quantum computing firms like |
| 1:43.3 | D-Wave Quantum and IonQ |
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