This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we do start with breaking news and our politics lead today.

In less than seven hours, the U.S. government will begin to shut down, barring some sort of miracle.

And while no two shutdowns are the same, the Trump administration has made it clear that this one will be played

using a totally different playbook. The Congressional Budget Office is warning that 750,000

federal workers could be furloughed per day, but also some are now at risk of losing their jobs

for good.

Listen.

We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible,

that are bad for them and irreversible by them,

like cutting vast numbers of people out,

cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.

Moments ago, President Trump added this.

A lot of good can come down from shutdowns.

We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want.

Republican leaders want a funding extension of the government for seven weeks with additional money for security for the legislative, executive and judicial branches.

Democrats say that they're not going to vote for that unless it includes changes to health care policy, including extending

Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year. So far, Pennsylvania Senator

John Federman is the only Democrat who has said that he will vote for the Republican

Party's seven-week bill.

It's getting nasty in D.C. just hours after meeting with congressional leaders at the White

House, including Democrats, President Trump posted this racist AI depiction of House Minority Leader

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