This is CNN breaking news.

And welcome to the lead. I'm Dick Tapper live on Capitol Hill.

We start this hour with the breaking news and our politics lead.

The federal government will be at least partially shut down through at least Friday because senators just left Capitol Hill.

They're off tomorrow for the Yom Kippur Jewish Holy Day. This as the

White House says mass layoffs of federal workers are imminent because of the shutdown, which the Trump

administration blames for, blames on Democrats. If this thing drags on for another few days or God forbid another few weeks, we are going to have to lay people off.

We're going to have to save money in some places so the essential services don't get turned off in other places.

That is the reality of the government shutdown that Chuck Schumer and Democrats have foisted upon the administration.

Republican leaders want a funding extension for the government for seven weeks with some additional money for security

for the legislative executive and judicial branches of government.

So far, most Senate Democrats have voted to kill opportunities to even vote on the matter.

Democrats are insisting on changes to health

care policy, including extending Obamacare subsidies, which are set to expire at the very

end of the year. In a few minutes, we're going to talk to the House Democratic leader,

Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of federal workers' livelihoods are at stake.

Thousands of federal workers working right now without pay. Thousands of others could even

lose their jobs for good because of what you heard from Vice President J.D. Vance there. The White

House Budget Office is threatening mass layoffs as a result of this shutdown. So what is President Trump doing about all this?

Well, a day after posting this AI-generated depiction of minority leader Hakeem Jeffries

with a sombrero and a mustache, which Jeffries called bigotry,

the president posted another similar video AI of Jeffreys with the addition

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