01:24⇢Government Shutdown Deepens
⌨US media continues its intense focus on the ongoing government shutdown, now in its second day, with President Trump explicitly threatening to use it to target Democrats for budget cuts and layoffs (ABC News, AP News, Breitbart, CBS, CNN, Common Dreams, Free Beacon, HuffPost, MSNBC, NBC News, Newsmax, NPR, The Atlantic, The Blaze, The Daily Wire, The Hill, The Intercept, The Washington Post, USA Today, Vox, Washington Examiner). Concurrently, Trump has declared an "armed conflict" with drug cartels after strikes in the Caribbean, labeling them "unlawful combatants" (The Daily Beast, The Epoch Times, NYTimes, Washington Times).