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In their post-meeting statement, Fed policymakers on Oct. 29 repeated their assessment that “job gains have slowed” and said “risks to employment rose in recent months.”

The GOP caucus has blamed Democrats for the impasse. Democrats oppose funding legislation that lacks provisions designed to extend federal subsidies for some health care coverage premiums. 

Farming communities have seen export markets for many crops dissipate and federal safety net programs shrink during the president’s second term.

Canada’s statistics agency says it hasn’t received data on U.S. imports of Canadian goods for September, raising the possibility it will be unable to proceed with a release of trade figures.

Washington’s partisan impasse continues to keep the federal government in a partial shutdown as the transportation panels eye consideration of a multiyear highway measure.

“Starting now, accuracy is getting worse,” Omair Sharif, president of Inflation Insights, said in an Oct. 9 interview, just over a week into the shutdown.

The Senate on Oct. 7 confirmed Barrs to manage the nation’s trucking regulatory agency even as the federal government remained locked in a partial shutdown.

It’s the first time since a government shutdown in 2013 that the jobs report has been delayed.

Trucking regulators and officials who manage the country’s surface transportation network are operating under mostly normal conditions as the partial government shutdown continues.

But work on some renewable energy projects will halt.