It's Monday, October 2, the lights are still on.

We start here.

A last-ditch vote extends the deadline for government funding.

But this is something that McCarthy may pay a price for.

But new troubles for the speaker could grind the house to a halt.

It's day one of the civil fraud trial involving former President Trump's family business.

Trump says he'll be in the courtroom.

And after a pandemic pause, federal student loan payments resume.

There's so many levels of frustration.

This is, you know, interest to my government.

Adding more stress to budgets already weighed down by inflation.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Michelle Franson.

Hey, Brad's out today, but I've got you covered to kick off the week.

And we start in the final days of last week when it seemed a government shutdown

was inevitable.

But what I am asking, Republicans and Democrats alike, put your partisanship away.

Focus on the American public.

Republicans and Democrats were far apart on a resolution in the House, but GOP Speaker

Kevin McCarthy was also facing pressure from a group of hard-line conservatives who said

they were willing to let the government shut down.

My frustration is that we're $33 trillion in debt running $2 trillion annual deficits

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