• No end in sight: The government shutdown will extend into next week, as the Senate left town for the weekend without a deal to reopen the government. Here’s a visual guide to what’s impacted by the shutdown.
• Unpaid workers: Today, hundreds of thousands of people are set to miss their first full paychecks of the shutdown. Senate Democrats yesterday blocked a GOP-led bill to pay workers deemed essential during the shutdown, and Republicans rejected their alternatives.
• Trade war: Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said he was terminating trade talks with Canada in response to an anti-tariff advert released by the Ontario province government, plunging relations into fresh crisis.
• Trump travels to Asia: Trump is preparing to depart this evening for Asia, with stops in Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea — where he’ll hold a high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping, the first face-to-face meeting with the Chinese leader of his second term.
Canada “can’t control the trade policy of the US,” the country’s prime minister told reporters on Friday, a day after US President Donald Trump said he was terminating trade talks with Ottawa.
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