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Trump: I have to be careful because one day I'm gonna probably fall. I always say walk down the steps nice and slow. I don't have to bop down the stairs

(Trump already has fallen on the stairs)

Trump at an official military event: "You could call a rally, this is sort of a rally, let's face it."

Trump opens the door to repealing the ACA:

"It's not working. Obamacare has been a disaster for the people."

Sen. Kelly: Let me tell you a story about a woman in Arizona I spoke to. She pays $250/month on the ACA on the exchange for her health care but she gets around $9,000 in those premium tax credits. She is expecting that is gonna go away, and she says she will not be able to afford health care anymore

Tennessee soybean farmer: China has long been our biggest customer, and tariffs have cut into our ability to sell soybeans to them. We don't want a bailout. We just want access to free and open markets to sell our crops.

Trump's Labor Secretary: We saw the ADP jobs numbers come out. They weren't the best, um... but we see the momentum

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a third day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

Sen. Padilla: ust a couple of months ago, Republicans were slashing other parts of the federal budget to underwrite tax breaks for billionaires. And now they say they can't find just a little bit of money to extend the premium tax credits that have been in place for years and are working

Sen. Shaheen: This is an issue that matters not just to people that are Democrats or independents, but to Republicans as well. There's a new poll that shows that 57% of people that identify themselves as MAGA Republicans support extending these ACA credits.

Soybean farmer: We are in a state of emergency right now because of everything that's going on. We'd rather have our global markets open and be able to sell our product. We have farmers that are losing farms that have been in their families for generations.

Q: The hiring rate was the lowest since 2013 outside of COVID. Private sector payrolls plunged in September. Why is it heading in the wrong direction?

Trump's Labor Secretary: We have the strongest economy in the world.

Q: Do we have the strongest jobs economy in the world?

Labor Sec: Absolutely.

Q: You just said federal layoffs are an 'unenviable choice,' but Trump has described this as an 'unprecedented opportunity' to lay off additional workers. Which is this?

Leavitt: Trump likes to have a little fun every now and then, and I think both things can be true at the same time

Q: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient?

Leavitt: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer.

Republican Senate Majority Leader says there are "probably" laws in place to protect federal workers

The Today Show airs segment on tips to "tariff-proof" holiday shopping:

"We have to shop in person because there are new taxes that are added on online items where they're passing on a 50% tariff... buy candy and chocolate and those kinds of things in bulk early... And you can shop secondhand."

Rep. Dean: Calling in 800 generals and the insulting, vain performance by Secretary Hegseth and Trump, that was just utterly incoherent. It's alarming to me. It is so dangerous. Trump is both unhinged and unwell

Sen. Sanders: Republicans, for the first time in modern history, have chosen not to negotiate. That is not acceptable. If we do not make changes, you're going to see 15 million Americans lose their health insurance. 50,000 Americans will die each year. That's what's at stake.

Leader Jeffries: Trump promised to lower costs on day 1. Costs are going up. The tariffs are making things worse. On top of that, because of their refusal to continue the ACA tax credits, you've got more than 20 million families that are likely to experience dramatically increased health care costs

Leader Jeffries: We're in day 3 of the Trump/Republican shutdown because Republicans don't want to provide health care to Americans. Real people are being hurt

New reporting reveals Kash Patel fired an FBI agent in training for having a pride flag on his desk.

Rep. Crow: Trump views the world through a lens of what he can get out of it. He views this as an opportunity to get something for him, or to enact retribution on his opponents. Everybody who gives a damn about Americans is trying to figure out how we end this shutdown and save people's health care

Trump: We'll get Russia taken care of somehow. I thought that would be an easy one. That's been a difficult one.

Trump: We're gonna save Chicago because it has to be saved.

Q: So you are going to Chicago. Have you settled on a date yet?

Trump: Pretty soon

Trump: Look at North Carolina where they had the horrible, it was like a flood, massive flood. It was a hurricane but it was a water hurricane. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Where land, big beautiful pieces of land were out in the middle of a lake.

Trump: "No inflation"

Q: Do you think there will be firings during the shutdown?

Trump: Well, there could be firings

Trump: Democrats are asking for things that most people and patriots wouldn't want.

(Democrats are asking to protect health care for millions of Americans)

Q: What is your relationship with Trump?

Lutnick: We are friends. We watch golf. He knows that I will laugh when he tells a joke, whereas other people are afraid

Q: There will be some economic impact if the health care premiums skyrocket

Hassett: We'll just have to wait and see what happens

Q: It's a 75% or more increase on premiums

Hassett: But the 75% is off of a really low number. The question is how much smaller the subsidies should be