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The government shutdown in the United States has reached its 36th day, breaking the previous record for the longest in the country’s history and causing a million Americans’ lives.

On Wednesday, federal program cuts that affect food assistance, among other crucial aspects of daily life, flight delays, and federal employees who are forced to work without pay were scheduled to continue.

Since Congress failed to approve funding past September 30th, federal agencies have been grinding to a halt, and welfare programs are still in jeopardy.

Republican senators and US President Donald Trump are scheduled to meet early on Wednesday for breakfast, where they will share the previous government shutdown record. However, there haven’t been any scheduled discussions with the Democrats.

Trump has vowed to negotiate with Democrats until they agree to reopen the government, claiming they are “extorting” him by demanding that they keep their deadlines for health insurance subsidies.

If the shutdown drags on past six weeks, worsening staff shortages, snarling airports, and closing down certain areas of airspace, the Trump administration sounded the alarm hours before the record-breaking shutdown toppled at midnight on Tuesday.

If air traffic controllers miss another paycheque, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted chaos in the skies the following week.

The American Automobile Association predicted that 5.8 million people will travel domestically on Thanksgiving, the busiest holiday in the US, for a record this year.

The White House has warned that more absenteeism could cause chaos at check-in lines because more than 60 000 air traffic controllers and TSA officers are employed without pay.

A major factor in Trump’s decision to end the 2019 shutdown, which began with his demands for money to build a US-Mexico border wall, was airport workers calling in sick rather than working without pay. This caused significant delays.

Democrats and Republicans, however, remain unwavering about healthcare spending, which is currently the main sticking point.

Democrats promise to support the funding lapse only once a deal has been reached to make healthcare accessible to all of the country’s millions of people.

Republicans say they will only address healthcare when Democrats will vote to turn off the lights in Washington, D.C.

There have been signs of life on the back benches, with a few moderate Democrats trying to find an escape hatch, despite leadership on both sides’ parties’ lack of appetite for compromise.

On Monday, a separate bipartisan group of four House members from centrist parties unveiled a compromise plan to lower healthcare costs.

Democrats think Republicans will be forced to find a compromise by millions of Americans who are enrolling in health insurance programs for the upcoming year.

Trump has attempted to use the shutdown to advance progressive priorities and appoint new pressure to make Democrats cling to the floor.

Even though the move was blocked by two courts, he threatened to stop a vital aid program that helps 42 million Americans for the first time in its more than 60-year history on Tuesday.

With a 2-1 victory over Paris Saint-Germain away from home thanks to Luis Diaz’s two goals and red card, Bayern Munich have won 16 of their 16 games this season, underlining their status as early UEFA Champions League favorites.

On the stroke of half-time, the Colombian winger struck twice on Tuesday before being sent off for a violent tackle against Achraf Hakimi.

After the break, PSG dominated possession but failed to make it count, falling to their first defeat in the competition since last season’s quarterfinal second leg defeat Aston Villa.

With the early replacement of Hakimi and Ousmane Dembele, Bayern remained top of the 36-team league with a maximum of 12 points, PSG in third, three points adrift, and with more injury concerns.

The most important thing I hope isn’t too bad for Hakimi. Bayern coach Vincent Kompany stated at a press conference that we had this experience with [Jamal] Musiala] at the Club World Cup in the United States.

“I always tell players to believe what there is when there is some hype.” We’ve won 16, but it’s going to be back to zero starting tomorrow. Today, no one has captured the Champions League.

The PSG counterpart, Luis Enrique, echoed that sentiment, saying, “Today’s standings are meaningless. February, March, April, and May are all important.

“It’s always difficult to lose at home,” he said. We must be more assertive and creative. A well-organized team, especially physically, was on hand. Marquinhos, the PSG captain, said, “We couldn’t get our game going.”

“This match has some positives to take away,” he said. The team continues to be ambitious, but we must improve. They were more superior to us. We were in control in the second half, but it came after the red card.

Ten-man Bayern are on pace for a dramatic victory.

Dembele made his Champions League debut, but Lee Kang-in took the place of him after 25 minutes.

PSG, who had defeated Bayern 2-0 in the Club World Cup quarterfinals in July, came out strong with their signature high pressing, but Lucas Chevalier’s effort was denied by Diaz in the fourth minute.

Dembele initially thought he had leveled midway through the half, but PSG struggled and looked unusually fragile at the back, where his goal was later ruled out for offside.

Bradley Barcola, who had a precise long ball from Fabian Ruiz, was denied by Manuel Neuer moments later in a spectacular save.

After Serge Gnabry hit the post, Diaz slammed on a sleepy Marquinhos to steal the ball and fire a second home in the 32nd minute.

Diaz abruptly missed half-time when he was shown a straight red card for a brutal lunge at Hakimi, who had a rumored ankle injury.

PSG had a number of long-range possession opportunities in the second half, but they didn’t have a cutting edge until the 74th minute when substitute Neves cut the deficit with a spectacular scissor kick from Lee’s cross.

Neves almost equalized a few minutes later with a header as PSG’s pressure increased. Bayern stayed put despite the hosts’ late ruckus.

In what was seen as a significant victory for Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, early results from Tuesday’s vote showed that voters had a two-to-one margin to support Proposition 50, increasing his party’s chances of taking control of the US Congress in the upcoming election and thus halting Trump’s agenda.

Democrats could win up to five additional House seats with the passage of the legislation, compared to the five that Texas Republicans are considering replacing after Trump pressured them to redraw their own maps. Republicans anticipate that new maps in Ohio and Missouri will add one seat, possibly two, to the mix.

Trump yelled out a furious response to Newsom’s protest. On Tuesday, he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social that the entire process, especially the Voting itself, is a GIANT SCAM.

Newsom rebuffed his criticism, calling the Republican response the “ramblings of an old man who knows he’s about to LOSE,” saying that he is putting his claim to the presidency of the Democratic Party ahead of the 2028 presidential election on his willingness to stand up to Trump. He claimed that voters had “sent a powerful message” to Trump in X after the victory.

California delivered Donald Trump a powerful message this evening. Our democracy will be fought for. And we’ll triumph. pic. twitter.com/tEcPlxVbi4

The elections of 2026, 2028, and 2030 will use the new district boundaries. The electoral map is based on the population there and is typically created by an independent commission following a national census that is conducted every ten years. Most parties in power actually rejigger the boundaries.

In some cases, the recast districts combine rural, traditionally conservative areas of northern California with Marin County, a renownedly liberal coastal stronghold across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

The proposal was intended to counteract Trump’s efforts to erode democracy, according to Newsom, who had attempted to nationalize the campaign. An angry Trump was depicted in a television campaign throwing French fries at the TV as he watched the results.

Barack Obama, the former president, backed the decision. Republicans want to rig the next election by snub a seat in Congress, according to one advertisement. You can stifle Republican sentiment.

Critics claimed that a wrong does not equal a right. Even if Californians have reservations about Trump’s actions in Republican-led states, they urged Californians to reject what they perceive as a Democratic power grab.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor who had overseen the establishment of the independent commission, was one of the most well-known critics.