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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 3: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 2: Karen, we begin with the fallout from the government shutdown.

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Speaker 2: The Trump administration is planning to use it to fire

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Speaker 2: federal workers this week. Bloomberg's Amy Morris is in Washington

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Speaker 2: with the latest.

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Speaker 4: White House Budget Director Russell Vote is planning to swiftly

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Speaker 4: dismiss federal workers, assigned that Republicans are leaning into hardball

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Speaker 4: tactics to pressure Democrats to cave to end the shutdown,

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Speaker 4: sources tell Bloomberg. Vote told House lawmakers some federal agencies

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Speaker 4: will start terminating workers this week. Vice President JD. Vance

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Speaker 4: at the White House.

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Speaker 5: If this thing drags on for another few days, or

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Speaker 5: god forbid, another few weeks, we are going to have

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Speaker 5: to lay people off. We're going to have to save

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Speaker 5: money in some places so the essential services don't get

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Speaker 5: turned off in other places.

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Speaker 4: Van says the administration isn't targeting agies based on politics.

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Speaker 4: In Washington, Amy Morris Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Amy, thank you. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has

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Speaker 2: also halted eighteen billion dollars in federal funding for infrastructure

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Speaker 2: projects in New York City. Budget Director Vote cited concerns

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Speaker 2: over diversity and equity policies, but President Trump had warned

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Speaker 2: he would use the shutdown to target quote Democrat Things.

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Speaker 3: Nathan that could include projects in the energy space. Vote

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Speaker 3: also said he will cancel eight billion dollars earmarked for

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Speaker 3: renewable energy projects in more than a dozen states that

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Speaker 3: voted for Kamala Harris in the twenty twenty four presidential election,

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Speaker 3: including hydrogen projects in California and the Pacific Northwest.

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Speaker 2: And with the government shutdown, Karen the Bureau of Labor

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Speaker 2: Statistics won't be releasing key economic data that the FED

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Speaker 2: keeps a close si on that includes tomorrow's September jobs report.

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Speaker 2: Chicago Fed President Austin Golesby, speaking to American public media,

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Speaker 2: says a lack of official government data makes it harder

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Speaker 6: I consider the Bureau of Labor Statistics job data to

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Speaker 6: be the absolutely best data source on jobs and statistics

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Speaker 6: in the entire world. If we aren't going to have those,

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Speaker 2: Chicago Fed President Austin goles We also reiterated concerns about

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Speaker 3: Well, Nathan, the Supreme Court is refusing to allow President

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Speaker 3: Trump to immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. It

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Speaker 3: means Cook can remain in her position until at least January,

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Michael McKee says the delay marks a long postponent

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Speaker 3: by the court.

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Speaker 7: One reason maybe that they are taking up the case

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Speaker 7: of the FTC commissioner that the President is trying to fire,

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Speaker 7: whom the Court allowed to be fired. But they're going

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Speaker 7: to hear arguments in that case in December. And because

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Speaker 7: some of these previous cases have involved the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 7: and the Court has suggested their maybe some slack given

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Speaker 7: to the Fed that isn't given to these other agencies.

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Speaker 3: And Bloomer's Michael McKee no said the Supreme Court decision

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Speaker 3: means Cook will continue to vote on interest rate decisions.

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Speaker 3: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says President Trump was

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Speaker 3: well within his legal authority to fire Cook.

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Speaker 2: Certain to Tech News Now, Karen open Ai has completed

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Speaker 2: a share sale that makes it the most valuable startup

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg that current and former employees of open Ai sold

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Speaker 2: roughly six point six billion dollars worth of shares to

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Speaker 2: a group of investors at a record five hundred billion

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Speaker 2: dollar valuation. Peter Elstrom is Bloomberg's executive editor for Global Tech.

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Speaker 8: That is a big accomplishment for a startup that has,

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Speaker 8: you know, still still is losing lots of money, still

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Speaker 8: has to prove that it has a business model behind this.

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Speaker 8: But it's a big step up, especially because the valuation

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Speaker 8: hundred billion dollars just earlier this year when Soft Bank

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom reports open Ai is locked in an

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Speaker 2: increasingly bitter fight for top AI engineers, and the share

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Speaker 2: sale is seen as one way to offer an incentive

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Speaker 3: To geopolitics now Nathan, President Trump says he will be

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Speaker 3: soybeans will be a major topic of discussion. Bloomberg Steven

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Speaker 3: Engels says the President's using social media to accuse China

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Speaker 9: Trump is becoming increasingly concerned by the unrest, if you will,

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Speaker 9: by US farmers, because keep in mind, you know, traditionally

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Speaker 9: is underway, by the way, the harvest is underway right now,

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Speaker 3: Bloomer Stephen Engle as that the President announced he plans

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Speaker 3: to use a small portion of tariff revenue to help farmers.

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Speaker 2: In the Middle East, Karen Arab and Muslim leaders are

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Speaker 2: pushing Kamas to accept the twenty point he's planned for Gaza,

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Speaker 2: the President Trump announced this week. One senior official told

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg it's important to focus on what he called wins

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Speaker 2: in the plan, including an end to the displacement of Gazans.

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Speaker 2: The source also says the aim of a full Israeli

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Speaker 3: We go to developments now in the war in Ukraine, Nathan.

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Speaker 3: Multiple reports say the US will provide Ukraine with intelligence

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Speaker 3: for a long range missile strikes on Russia's energy infrastructure,

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Speaker 3: and that the Trump administration is considering sending Kiev.

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Speaker 4: More powerful weapons.

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Speaker 3: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski spoke this morning about the request

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Speaker 10: We're thankful to President Trump.

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Speaker 4: This Dalak.

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Speaker 11: Last time we had very good meeting, very productive Dalak,

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Speaker 3: His Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelanski was speaking in Copenhagen to

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Speaker 2: On Wall Street, Karen stocks climbed to a record on

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Speaker 2: the first day of fourth quarter trading. The Dow, SNP

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Speaker 2: does gold. Goldman Sachs strategists are saying this morning there's

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Speaker 2: room for bully and to rally even more. The firm

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Speaker 2: says interest from private investors presents large upside risk. Thereforecast

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Speaker 3: We have a note in big tech this morning as well. Nathan.

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Speaker 3: Apple pausing a planned overhaul of its Vision pro headset

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Speaker 3: to focus on developing smart glasses that can rival metas products.

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Speaker 3: It's working on at least two types of smart glasses,

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Speaker 3: including one that will pair with an iPhone and another

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Speaker 3: with a display that could challenge Meta's ray band display.

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Speaker 3: Apple's glasses will rely heavily on voice interaction and artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 2: The City Group is now the main home of President

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Speaker 2: Trump's money after years of getting shunned by major banks.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg News has learned the relationship began after CEO Jane

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Speaker 2: Fraser congratulated the president on his second term win. The

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Speaker 2: President's wealth has surged in recent years, driving up potential

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Speaker 2: revenue for his bankers. Financial firms are previously unwilling to

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Speaker 2: take on the President's wealth after past failures to repay

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Speaker 2: loans tied to troubled business dealings.

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Speaker 3: Time now for look at some of the other stories

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Speaker 3: making news in New York and around the world, and

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Speaker 3: from that we're joined by Bloomberg's Monica Rix.

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Speaker 12: Monica, Good morning, Hey, Good morning, Karen. The United Nations

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Speaker 12: says it's now closely monitoring a global flotilla that was

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Speaker 12: intercepted by the Israeli Navy yesterday as it was sailing

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Speaker 12: to deliver some much needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza. You,

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Speaker 12: and spokesperson Stefan Jujarek.

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Speaker 2: We're obviously following the flotilla very closely. We just we

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Speaker 12: That flotilla included nearly fifty boats and five hundred activists,

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Speaker 12: including Greta Tumberg and Nelson Mandela's grandson. Meantime, Israel's Defense

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Speaker 12: minister has ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City immediately,

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Speaker 12: saying anyone who stays will be considered a militant supporter

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Speaker 12: and face the full force of Israel's latest offensive. The

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Speaker 12: Officials expect the death toll to keep rising in the

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Speaker 12: Philippines as rescuers there use backcoes and sniffer dogs to

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Speaker 12: sift through rubble of collapse buildings for survivors of a

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Speaker 12: powerful earthquake. At least seventy two people have died so far,

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Speaker 12: and destruction and rain is hampering rescue efforts. Two Delta

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Speaker 12: planes clipped each other overnight at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

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Speaker 12: air Traffic Control dot Net. One of the planes had

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Speaker 12: TSA's warning your travel plans could be impacted by the

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Speaker 12: This traveler is worried about service in Ohio.

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Speaker 4: You can only ask people to do so much genuinely.

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Speaker 6: Even if a service is very important, people are only

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Speaker 12: For so long, passport processing remains mostly unaffected. And renowned

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Speaker 12: conservationists Jane Goodaald has died. She was known for her

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Speaker 12: groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe spanning environmental advocacy. She

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Speaker 12: Monica Rix and this is Bloomberg Karen Nathan.

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Speaker 3: All right, Monica, thank you, Thanks Monica. Time now for

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Speaker 3: our Bloomberg Sports update, and for that we bring in

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Speaker 11: Thanks Karen, to be going to day. In baseball, there

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Speaker 11: are three decisive game threes in the Wildcard playoffs, the

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Speaker 11: One series did end. The Dodgers beat the Reds eight

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Speaker 11: to four. The Dodgers will now play the Phillies. Brian

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Speaker 11: Snicker will not return as manager of the Atlanta Braves,

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. Now, more than twenty four

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Speaker 2: hours into the federal government's shut down, the White House

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Speaker 2: says the first layoffs could begin in the next one

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Speaker 2: to two days. It may be assigned the Republicans ready

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Speaker 2: President jd Vance says they'll have little choice if this

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Speaker 5: We are going to have to lay some people off

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Speaker 5: if the shutdown continues.

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Speaker 4: We don't like that, we.

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Speaker 5: Don't necessarily want to do it, but we're going to

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Speaker 5: do what we have to to keep the American people's

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Speaker 2: And that was Vice President jd Vance at the White House.

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Speaker 2: For more, we're joined by Bloomberg News editor Alexander Pearson.

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Speaker 2: Alex I mean they do have a choice technically, don't they.

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Speaker 2: I mean, in the past, there have been temporary furloughs

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Speaker 2: of federal workers, So what is the strategy here? Good morning, Good.

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Speaker 10: Morning, Nathan. Yeah, that's right. Previously, during government shutdowns like this,

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Speaker 10: federal workers would be furloughed, they wouldn't get any payment,

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Speaker 10: and then when the government reopened, they would basically all

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Speaker 10: the administration's doing here is sort of escalating the shutdown

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Speaker 10: So it's definitely an escalation by the White House in

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Speaker 2: Well, they're saying that the layoffs are going to happen

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Speaker 10: So yeah, the Office of Management and Budget sent a

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Speaker 2: And in the meantime, we've already seen the White House

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Speaker 10: That's certainly how it's being read, you know, in amongst

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Speaker 2: So in our last thirty seconds, Alex, are we seeing

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Speaker 10: Among leadership. No, they've at least publicly remained very steadfast

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