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The White House is increasingly worried about political backlash over health care cuts.

Plus, the government shutdown means its jobs Friday, but without the monthly employment data.

It sends people looking toward alternative data sources, which, you know, people are always looking at, but now it's really come front and center.

And Putin scoffs at claims that Russia is behind drone incursions as new sightings cancel flights

overnight. It's Friday, October 3rd. I'm Kate Bullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and

business stories moving your world today.

It's the third day of the government shut down. And on the surface, President Trump is showing

confidence that he's winning the messaging war over Democrats. Both sides yesterday

continued the finger pointing while signaling that they were keen to find a way out of the current

impasse to end the shutdown. Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Call your senators, your Democrat senators, the 44 people who want to shut the

government down. You should call them right now and tell them to get here and get to work and open

the country up for the people. Let's find a bipartisan path forward and let's address the Republican

health care crisis. However, despite the public bravado, Republicans are becoming increasingly concerned that their party will be blamed for allowing healthcare subsidies to expire, increasing costs for millions of Americans.

Inside the White House, AIDS are discussing proposals to extend the enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. We understand that

Trump hasn't yet decided whether he will endorse such a proposal. Republicans say they'll only

hold negotiations with Democrats on the matter after the government is reopened. It comes as voters have

expressed deepening frustration with Trump's handling of the economy in recent polls.

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