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Here's your morning brief for Thursday, September 25th. I'm Caitlin McCabe for the Wall Street Journal.

Denmark has suffered a professional hybrid drone attack overnight. Drones were observed over multiple airports late Wednesday, including a military base housing most of the country's F-16 and F-35 fighter jets.

It's the second time in less than a week that

unmanned aircraft have disrupted air traffic in the NATO country and follows Russian violations

of Estonian and Polish airspace in recent weeks. The Danish government is now considering

calling for national security consultations under NATO's Article 4. U.S. lawmakers have less than a week to reach a spending agreement before the government

shuts down, and the situation just got all the more complicated.

The White House's Budget Office has directed federal agencies to go ahead with mass

firings if the government does indeed go dark next week.

The memo sharply increases pressure on Senate Democrats

who are demanding that Republicans restore hundreds of billions of dollars in health care spending

in order to get their support. If no bipartisan deal is reached, the government will shut down at

1201 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, October 1st. And we are exclusively reporting that lawmakers are

ramping up scrutiny of how big tech companies are using H-1B visas. Last night, lawmakers sent

letters to the largest users of the visas, including Amazon, Apple, and J.P. Morgan Chase,

asking them to explain why they continue to hire thousands of H-1B visa holders

while also cutting other jobs. It comes just days after the Trump administration overhauled the visa

system, arguing that foreign professionals were occupying jobs that could be done by an American.

Asian stocks ended the day mixed, while a broad gauge of European stocks is lower in

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