Live from NPR News in Washington, on Kouravuk Coleman, the House of Representatives has rejected a new last-minute spending plan to avert a federal government shutdown.

Dozens of Republicans join nearly all the Democrats in voting against it.

NPR's Asma Khalid reports the White House blasted the new spending plan as a, quote, giveaway for billionaires.

The White House says President Biden supported an earlier version of the plan, a bipartisan deal to keep the government open.

That deal was upended on Wednesday by President-elect Donald Trump and his close advisor Elon Musk,

who also happens to be the wealthiest person in the world.

In a statement, White House Press

Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre said Republicans are doing the bidding of their billionaire

benefactors at the expense of hardworking Americans and breaking their word to support a bipartisan

agreement that would lower prescription drug costs and make it harder to offshore jobs to China.

If Congress cannot reach a deal, the government will begin shutdown operations at midnight

Friday. Asma Khalid and PR News. The Teamsters Union has called strikes at seven Amazon

facilities across the country. The union wants the online retailer to come to the bargaining table to hammer out

labor contracts. Some of the people who are striking work for Amazon, but others work for third-party companies.

NPR's Andrea Shue reports the company rejects the union's position. Amazon has called this a PR play on the part of the Teamsters.

The company has disputed that the Teamsters even represents these thousands of workers.

And part of the issue is those third-party drivers.

Amazon says they're not company employees, but this has been a subject of litigation.

The Teamsters and federal labor officials have argued that even though these drivers company employees, but this has been a subject of litigation.

The Teamsters and federal labor officials have argued that even though these drivers are not direct employees of Amazon, they only work for Amazon.

Amazon controls their wages and their working conditions.

NPR's Andrea Shoe reporting, Amazon says it doesn't expect delivery delays.

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