Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. There's no apparent movement to end the shutdown of the federal government now in its fourth day. Republicans want a temporary bill to continue spending at previous levels for a short time to allow for negotiations. Democrats want to include a measure extending health care subsidies now slated to expire at the end of the year.

The White House is using the shutdown to further cut the federal workforce and freeze some projects.

And here Stephen Fowler has more.

The Energy Department says billions of dollars for clean energy grants are being canceled because of a review that found they, quote,

did not adequately advance the

nation's energy needs, were not economically viable, and would not provide a positive

return on investment of taxpayer dollars. Others have noted that those projects are in more

than a dozen states, including Minnesota and New York, all of them Vice President Kamala Harris

won in last year's presidential

election. The timing of the announcement comes as the administration is doing a full court

press to get Democrats to get on board with their plans to reopen the government.

And Pierre Steven Fowler.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says he won't give in to an ultimatum from the Trump administration to deploy the state's National Guard.

But he says the administration intends to federalize 300 Illinois Guard members.

He says the state doesn't need military troops. Meanwhile,

I go home. I go home.

Protesters gathered in Chicago today near Brighton Park, where Homeland Security says officers shot an armed woman this morning.

DHS says Border Patrol vehicles were rammed and boxed in by 10 cars and that a suspect tried to run them over while armed with a semi-automatic weapon.

Earlier this week, federal officials conducted an early morning immigration raid at an apartment building in Chicago, pulling adults and children from their apartments.

Dozens, including U.S. citizens, were detained for hours.

Alderman Brian Sigcho Lopez.

They're escalating by this in the city.

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