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Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Janine Hurst.

As Iowa gears up for the first in the nation GOP

caucuses, bitter cold is smothering the state. Iowa Public Radio Sheila Brummer

reports, even though party organizers are concerned about the weather they want people to show up.

Iowa sits in a deep freeze with some areas in the teens below zero on Caucus Eve

and a Wintill index making it too dangerous to venture outside.

Even so the Iowa Republican Party's spokesperson Kush DeSai says Iowans are used to rough weather

at Caucus time.

We're confident that, you know what they're doing and they also know what's fundamentally

at stake here with our country heading into the 2024 election.

With another frigid day on the way, Desite urges people to give themselves enough time to make

it safely to caucus sites tomorrow night.

For NPR News, I'm Sheila Brummer in Sioux City, Iowa.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he worked with Republican

leader Mitch McConnell on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown when

federal funding runs out on Friday. I will put on the floor of the Senate legislation this

Tuesday that will keep the government open and I hope we get strong bipartisan support

for that legislation.

He says the majority of Republicans and Democrats don't want a shutdown,

but he says there's a group of hard-right extremists who do.

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