Through this whole thing, you know, because I don't know, we'll probably have a shutdown because one of the things they want to do is they want to give incredible Medicare, Cadillac, the Cadillac Medicare, to illegal immigrants.

And what that does is it keeps them coming into our country and like they do in California.

And no country can afford that.

No country.

President Trump yesterday falsely claiming that the government shutdown's happening because

Democrats want to give health care to illegal immigrants.

That's not quite right.

We're now five hours into the shutdown after Congress and the White House failed to reach

an agreement on how to extend federal funding.

The question is, how long will this last? Also ahead, we'll go through President Trump's rambling and partisan address to hundreds of military generals yesterday. The question is,

what was the point of that speech? Plus, the Trump administration has withdrawn E.J. Antony's

nomination to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The question is, what's behind that move? It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early. I'm Ali Vitale on this Wednesday, October 1st, and we'll start with the news because the U.S. government officially shut down at midnight after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement on how to extend federal funding. It's the first shutdown since 2018, which came during President Trump's first term, and that was the longest ever at 34 days.

Hours before last night's deadline, both Republican and Democratic funding proposals were rejected by the Senate, this despite three Democrats voting in favor of that GOP bill.

As of this moment, there is still no clear path to a resolution here.

Republicans say there's nothing left to negotiate, and they expect Democrats to eventually

crack under pressure.

I think there are a lot of them over there who know that their leadership is walking them off

the cliff and really want to do something other than follow the leader, but they are under so

much pressure from the political left in this country. I think they're stuck and they don't

have an identity right now. And this is just an example that they really don. I think they're stuck and they don't have an identity

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