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With no deal in sight, the government heads towards a shutdown.

Plus, what Pfizer gets out of offering its drugs to Americans at a reduced rate.

So in exchange for continuing to invest in domestic manufacturing and making these other concessions,

it won't be subject to what are called 232 tariffs.

That'll be great for Pfizer, which has quite a large manufacturing footprint outside the United States.

And CoreWeave secures a $14 billion contract with META.

It's Tuesday, September 30th.

I'm Alex O'Sullough for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

The federal government appears to be mere hours away from a shutdown.

Funding will lapse just after midnight tonight unless Congress passes a stopgap spending bill, which is an increasingly remote possibility.

Speaking to reporters, President Trump said a shutdown was likely.

He said he could use a lapse in funding to flex his executive powers at Democrats' expense, while also signaling he could be open for more discussions regarding their health care

demands. With just hours to go, Democrats leaned on Trump to rally Republicans behind some sort of

deal. More votes were planned in the Senate today, but there was no sign of a late reprieve.

For more about the impact of a potential shutdown, I'm joined by WSJ economics reporter Justin Layhart.

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