Here is your morning brief for Friday, October 31st. I'm Kate Bollivant for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump has urged Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster to reopen the US government,

the long-standing rule that requires 60 votes to advance most legislation. Posting on social media,

Trump said it was time for Republicans to go for the, quote, nuclear option of eliminating

the filibuster. Government funding lapsed on October 1st after a stopgap spending bill passed

by the Republican-led House, fell five votes short of the 60 needed in the

Senate. SpaceX is set to receive $2 billion to develop satellites that contract missiles and

aircraft under President Trump's Golden Dome Project. That's according to people familiar with

the matter. The funding was included in the

tax and spending bill that Trump signed in July, but wasn't publicly linked to a contractor.

And the Trump administration has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities

used to smuggle drugs. According to US officials familiar with the

matter, while the president hasn't made a final decision on ordering land strikes, a potential

air campaign would focus on targets that sit at the nexus of the drug gangs and the Venezuelan

leader Nicolas Maduro's regime. Markets in Asia and Europe are mixed.

US stock futures climbed after strong earnings from Amazon and Apple

reassured investors about the trajectory of big tech.

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