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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Senate today failed to advance

bills passed by the House to fund the federal government as a shutdown looms. Senate Majority Leader

John Thune says Democrats are dragging out a process they know won't succeed. They're trying to

use what they think is leverage to get a bunch of stuff done.

It's never going to happen.

I mean, can you imagine anything in that bill that they sent that we voted down today

passing in the Republican House of Representatives?

Absolutely not. It's just not serious. They're not being serious.

But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says if a shutdown happens,

it would be the Republicans' fault. Now that it's clear that neither bill will get the 60 votes

that the Senate needs, it's time to negotiate. The theater must end. The government's fiscal year

ends on September 30th. The crackdown on critics of

slaying conservative activist Charlie Kirk has ignited a debate about free speech. President

Trump today complained that news networks overwhelmingly report bad news about him saying,

that's illegal. When you have networks that give somebody 97% bad

publicity or 94% bad publicity, I think that's dishonesty. He also praised the FCC chair for

pressuring ABC to indefinitely suspend comedian Jimmy Kimmel for his comments about Kirk. ABC already paid

$15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. And CBS News paid $16 million for a 60-minute's interview

with presidential candidate Harris. Democrats and some Republicans are pushing back,

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