Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens.

President Trump is backing away from his announced crackdown on the H-1B or foreign worker visa program.

In a heated exchange with Fox News's Laura Ingram, Trump suggested the visas are necessary because not enough Americans are qualified for certain jobs.

You also do have to bring in talent.

Well, we have plenty of talented people here.

No, you don't. No, you don't. We don't have talented people here.

No, you don't have certain talents and people have to learn. You can't take people off

like an unemployment line and say, I'm going to put you into a factory who are going to make missiles.

Trump disagreed with England on whether H-1B visa crackdowns will be a priority for his administration.

In September, ICE agents arrested hundreds of South Korean engineers who came to the United States

to build a factory at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.

The U.S. houses expected to vote Wednesday on a

bipartisan bill to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, but ramifications for

U.S. citizens won't wrap up as quickly. As Cynthia Abrams from member station, WPLN. reports

many households are struggling due to a pause on federal aid for utility payments.

The federal government provides a number of supports to families in need. There's food aid,

disability payments, and there's also a program that helps low-income families pay their gas or

electric bills. Like SNAP, that's been delayed during the shutdown. The city of Nashville

has put around $200,000 toward the gap, but... It does not even make a dent in the amount of families

that you usually cover. Lisa McCready-Beverly, with Nashville's Metro Action Commission,

says the program usually receives $6 million in federal funding.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration laid off the entire staff responsible for administering the energy assistance grants.

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