Authorities shutdown dwell updates as clock ticks nearer to midnight deadline

COPY: Mr. Trump continued baiting Canada, which he has mentioned desires to hitch the U.S., although Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney mentioned in an Oval Workplace assembly in Could that his nation is “not on the market, ever.” 

“Canada referred to as me a few weeks in the past — they wish to be a part of it,” Mr. Trump claimed. “To which I mentioned, why do not you simply be part of our nation? You turn out to be the 51st state and also you get it free of charge.” 

Mr. Trump mentioned he did not know if “that made a huge impact,” however he mentioned “it made numerous sense” due to his tariffs. In August, he imposed a so-called reciprocal tariff of 35% on Canadian items. 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, said Mr. Trump’s move to post a fake video of Democratic leaders Monday night indicates that the president “has no expectation or desire to avoid a shutdown.”

“President Trump evidently wants it, otherwise he wouldn’t have posted what he did last night, which was really despicable in its use of AI to distort a colleague’s position,” Blumenthal said. 

The Connecticut Democrat said “this kind of shutdown is a self-inflicted, totally unnecessary, avoidable wound that Donald Trump, not necessarily my Republican colleagues, but Donald Trump is bringing on the American people.”

“That post last night shows where his heart is,” Blumenthal said. “He wants to mock, he wants vengeance and vanity, and using the government for those ends, I think, will be seen by the American people as a profound disgrace and shame.”

During a government shutdown, all active-duty personnel, as well as National Guard who are currently deployed, must carry out their assigned duties with their pay delayed until the shutdown is over. Civilian personnel whose work the Defense Department considers essential, or “excepted,” will also continue to work, while other civilians are furloughed for the duration of the shutdown. 

“After the government shutdown, all government employees will automatically receive back pay, based on the terms of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019,” said Seamus Daniels, a fellow for Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Active-duty service members won’t get paid on time unless Congress passes a separate piece of legislation, as it did in 2013 with the “Pay Our Military Act,” which ensured military pay and allowances continued during a government shutdown. 

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President Trump, asked by CBS News’ Nancy Cordes outside the White House how many federal workers the administration plans to lay off if there’s a shutdown, replied, “We may do a lot, and that’s only because of the Democrats.”

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to federal agencies last week telling them to consider reduction-in-force notices, or layoffs, for employees in programs, projects or activities that received discretionary funding as the shutdown deadline approached. The RIF notices would come in addition to any furlough notices directing federal workers to stay home from work without pay if Congress fails to extend government funding by the deadline.

Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” whether he thinks lawmakers will avert a shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson said, “You know me, I’m an optimist. But I am a little skeptical this morning.”



“Whether or not the government shuts down at midnight is entirely up to two people, it’s Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries — primarily Chuck Schumer,” Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said. 

Johnson said Democrats are “pursuing a very reckless strategy right now,” adding “for the life of me, I cannot understand what they hope to accomplish other than giving themselves temporary political cover from the far-left portion of their base who are demanding that they fight Trump.”

“There is no basis whatsoever for them to oppose this continuing resolution,” Johnson said. 

The Senate is expected to again vote on a House-passed measure that would keep the government funded until Nov. 21 at some point on Tuesday.

After the House passed the continuing resolution earlier this month, the measure fell short in the Senate, where a 60-vote threshold is needed to advance most legislation. With 53 Republicans, the GOP needs support from Democrats to fund the government. 

Democrats put forward their own proposal earlier this month, which also failed in the Senate. The measure would keep the government funded until Oct. 31 and includes one of their key priorities — extending expiring health insurance subsidies.

Whether more Democrats are willing to back the House-passed bill to keep the government funded this time around remains to be seen. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters on Monday that he planned to bring up the bill for a vote Tuesday, saying that it’s “up to Democrats” whether a shutdown is averted. 

“We have a clean, short-term bipartisan CR sitting at the desk,” he said. “It’s up to them.”

Hours after meeting at the White House with the top two congressional Democrats, President Trump posted a fake video to Truth Social mocking the lawmakers.

The video, which appeared to be generated by AI, shows Schumer and Jeffries standing outside the White House, but splices in fake audio of Schumer claiming Democrats’ plan is to “give all these illegal aliens free health care.” Jeffries, meanwhile, is shown with a moustache and a sombrero, and the Mexican hat dance plays in the background.

In an interview later Monday with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Jeffries called the video “disgusting,” adding: “Bigotry will get you nowhere.”

Schumer responded to the video by writing on X: “If you think your shutdown is a joke, it just proves what we all know: You can’t negotiate. You can only throw tantrums.”

Mr. Trump has posted fake images on Truth Social in the past. Over the weekend, he posted a cartoon of him firing his foe, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president hasn’t attempted to fire Powell.

CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment.