Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 - Shutdown blame game; SCOTUS ruled Cook stays, for now; Pentagon polygraphs; Lab made eggs

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

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Today’s Headlines: The government is officially shut down, and OMB apparently spent its last working hours ordering at least 16 federal agencies to send out a pre-written email blaming Democrats for it—an illegal little parting gift to federal workers. With the shutdown, you can forget about getting jobs or inflation data for now (except from payroll firm ADP, which says companies shed 32,000 jobs in September—so, yeah, not great). Meanwhile, the Supreme Court told Trump he can’t just boot Fed Governor Lisa Cook on the spot, kicking that fight to January. At the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth is rolling out strict NDAs and even random polygraphs for thousands of staffers, including top brass, in his ongoing war against leakers. And in actual science news, researchers in Nature Communications announced they’ve managed to create functional human eggs from skin cells in a lab—early proof-of-concept that could eventually transform fertility treatments, though no babies are being made from them anytime soon. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: The Handbasket: Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Yahoo: While the government is closed, jobs and inflation data go unreported NBC News: U.S. companies shed 32,000 jobs in September in latest sign of labor market weakness NYT: Supreme Court Allows Lisa Cook to Remain at Fed, for Now WaPo: Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks Wired: Scientists Made Human Eggs From Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	Today is Thursday, October 2nd, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements
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1:19.2	So the government is shut down. Now what? Reporting from the handbasket revealed that the White
1:24.8	House Office of Management and Budget mandated that at least
1:27.6	16 federal agencies send an email to their employees ahead of the shutdown deadline, blaming
1:33.0	Democrats for the shutdown. The order to send this email reportedly went out to the agency's
1:37.8	leadership in the afternoon on Tuesday, and they stressed that no changes could be made to the
1:42.4	required language. You may be surprised to hear this, but this is actually illegal.
1:47.7	Among the other government functions that won't be functioning until it reopens,
1:51.7	there will be no jobs or inflation data reported.
1:54.8	This means that the hotly anticipated jobs report that's due to come out tomorrow won't be released.
2:00.3	But you know what hotly anticipated
2:01.9	release will be out? Taylor Swift's new album. We are not completely without jobs data, though,
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