New York judge finds Trump committed fraud by overvaluing business assets and net worth – live

Today, Joe Biden became the first sitting US president in modern memory to visit a union picket line, traveling to Van Buren township, Michigan, to address United Auto Workers members who have walked off the job at the big three automakers. The president argued that the workers deserve higher wages, and appeared alongside the union’s leader, Shawn Fain – who has yet to endorse Biden’s re-election bid.

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Back in Washington DC, Congress is as troubled as ever. The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill to temporarily avoid a government shutdown, but hard-right holdouts in the House have refused to consider such a measure. Instead, House Republicans are focusing on four long-term appropriations bills that won’t actually avert a shutdown.

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Read our full coverage of today’s shutdown developments here.

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Meanwhile, more and more Democratic senators say Bob Menendez should resign his seat after being indicted on corruption charges, including his fellow Jerseyman, Cory Booker.

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Further reading:

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• Hunter Biden’s latest salvo in his campaign of lawsuits is against Rudy Giuliani and another lawyer, whom he accuses of violating his privacy by going through his digital devices.

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• The supreme court told Alabama’s Republican leaders that they have to draw another majority-Black congressional district. They tried very hard to get out of doing so.

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• Donald Trump added at least two veteran attorneys to his criminal defense team, as he prepares to fight 91 criminal charges under four indictments.

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• Trump’s lawyers plan to appeal judge’s ruling today that he committed fraud while building empire.Here is where each investigation stats.

  – Chris Stein and Maanvi Singh

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What happens when a US government shutdown takes place?

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Thousands of federal government employees are put on furlough, meaning that they are told not to report for work and go unpaid for the period of the shutdown, although their salaries are paid retroactively when it ends.

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Other government workers who perform what are judged essential services, such as air traffic controllers and law enforcement officials, continue to work but do not get paid until Congress acts to end the shutdown.

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Depending on how long it lasts, national parks can either shut entirely or open without certain vital services such as public toilets or attendants. Passport processing can stop, as can research – at national health institutes.

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The Biden administration has warned that federal inspections ensuring food safety and prevention of the release of dangerous materials into drinking water could stop for the duration of the shutdown.

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About 10,000 children aged three and four may also lose access to Head Start, a federally funded program to promote school readiness among toddlers, especially among low-income families.

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What causes a shutdown?

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Simply put, the terms of a piece of legislation known as the Anti-Deficiency Act, first passed in 1884, prohibits federal agencies from spending or obligating funds without an act of appropriation – or some alternative form of approval – from Congress.

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If Congress fails to enact the 12 annual appropriations bills needed to fund the US government’s activities and associated bureaucracy, all non-essential work must cease until it does. If Congress enacts some of the bills but not others, the agencies affected by the bills not enacted are forced to cease normal functioning; this is known as a partial government shutdown.

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How unusual are US government shutdowns?

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For the first 200 years of the US’s existence, they did not happen at all. In recent decades, they have become an increasingly regular part of the political landscape, as Washington politics has become more polarized and brinkmanship a commonplace political tool. There have been 20 federal funding gaps since 1976, when the US first shifted the start of its fiscal year to 1 October.

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Three shutdowns in particular have entered US political lore:

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A 21-day partial closure in 1995 over a dispute about spending cuts between President Bill Clinton and the Republican speaker, Newt Gingrich, that is widely seen as setting the tone for later partisan congressional struggles.

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In 2013, when the government was partially closed for 16 days after another Republican-led Congress tried to use budget negotiations to defund Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.

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A 34-day shutdown, the longest on record, lasting from December 2018 until January 2019, when Donald Trump refused to sign any appropriations bill that did not include $5.7bn funding for a border wall along the US border with Mexico. The closure damaged Trump’s poll ratings.

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Read more:

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The Senate voted to advance a temporary government funding bill that aims to avoid a partial government shutdown on Sunday.

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The vote puts the Senate on a path to pass a continuing resolution (CR) later this week, that could then send to the House.

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Donald Trump has added at least two veteran attorneys to his criminal defense team as he faces 91 criminal charges under four indictments.

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Rormer federal prosecutor Emil Bove and seasoned white collar defense lawyer Kendra Wharton have signed onto the legal team organized by Trump attorney Todd Blanche, according to a Politico report.

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Bove, who was co-chief of the national security unit at the Manhattan US attorney’s office, and Wharton are expected to work on Trump’s New York criminal case brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and the federal cases filed by special counsel Jack Smith, according to the report.

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The hires are the most significant new legal additions to Trump’s criminal defense team as he prepares for multiple criminal trials scheduled for next year. They coincide with Smith’s own addition to his team, the report says.

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The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, and the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, reached an agreement on a stopgap spending plan that would keep the government open past Saturday.

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A bipartisan Senate draft measure would fund the government through 17 November and include around $6bn in new aid to Ukraine and roughly $6bn in disaster funding, Reuters reported.

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Speaking earlier today, Schumer said:

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We will continue to fund the government at present levels while maintaining our commitment to Ukraine’s security and humanitarian needs, while also ensuring those impacted by natural disasters across the country begin to get the resources they need.

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Ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general Letitia James, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered that some of Donald Trump’s business licenses be rescinded as punishment after finding the former president committed fraud by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth.

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The judge also said he would continue to have an independent monitor oversee the Trump Organization’s operations.

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James sued Trump and his adult sons last year, alleging widespread fraud connected to the Trump Organization and seeking $250m and professional sanctions. She has said Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.23bn, and by one measure as much as $3.6bn, on annual financial statements given to banks and insurers.

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Assets whose values were inflated included Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, his penthouse apartment in Manhattan’s Trump Tower, and various office buildings and golf courses, she said.

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In his ruling, Judge Engoron said James had established liability for false valuations of several properties, Mar-a-Lago and the penthouse. He wrote:

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In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies. That is a is a fantasy world, not the real world.

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Judge Arthur F Engoron’s ruling marks a major victory for New York attorney general Letitia James’s civil case against Donald Trump.

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In the civil fraud suit, James is suing Trump, his adult sons, Donald TrumpJr and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization for $250m.

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Today’s ruling, in a phase of the case known as summary judgment, resolves the key claim in James’s lawsuit, but six others remain.

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Trump has repeatedly sought to delay or throw out the case, and has repeatedly been rejected. He has also sued the judge, with an appeals court expected to rule this week on his lawsuit.

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A New York state judge has granted partial summary judgment to the New York attorney general, Letitia James, in the civil case against Donald Trump.

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Judge Arthur F Engoron found that Trump committed fraud for years while building his real estate empire, and that the former president and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing, AP reports:

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Beyond mere bragging about his riches, Trump, his company and key executives repeatedly lied about them on his annual financial statements, reaping rewards such as favorable loan terms and lower insurance premiums, Engoron found.

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Those tactics crossed a line and violated the law, the judge said in his ruling on Tuesday.

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The decision by Judge Engoron precedes a trial that is scheduled to begin on Monday. James, a Democrat, sued Trump and his adult sons last year, alleging widespread fraud connected to the Trump Organization and seeking $250m and professional sanctions.

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The House and Senate will in a few hours hold votes that will be crucial to the broader effort to stop the government from shutting down at the end of the week.

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The federal fiscal year ends on 30 September, after which many federal agencies will have exhausted their funding and have to curtail services or shut down entirely until Congress reauthorizes their spending. But lawmakers have failed to pass bills authorizing the government’s spending into October due to a range of disagreements between them, with the most pronounced split being between House Republicans who back speaker Kevin McCarthy and a small group of rightwing insurgents who have blocked the chamber from considering a measure to fund the government for a short period beyond the end of the month.

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At 5.30pm, the Democratic-dominated Senate will vote on a bill that extends funding for a short period of time, but lacks any new money for Ukraine or disaster relief that Joe Biden’s allies have requested. Those exclusions are seen as a bid to win support in the Republican-led House.

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The House is meanwhile taking procedural votes on four long-term spending bills. If the votes succeed, it could be a sign that McCarthy has won over some of his detractors – but that alone won’t be enough to keep the government open.

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The House speaker, Kevin McCarthy,said it would be “very important” to meet with Joe Biden to avert a government shutdown, and suggested the president could solve the crisis at the southern border unilaterally.

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Asked why he was not willing to strike a deal with congressional Democrats on a short-term funding bill to keep the government open, NBC reports that McCarthy replied:

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Why don’t we just cut a deal with the president?

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He added:

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The president, all he has to do … it’s only actions that he has to take. He can do it like that. He changed all the policies on the border. He can change those. We can keep government open and finish out the work that we have done.

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Asked if he was requesting a meeting with Biden, McCarthy said:

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I think it would be very important to have a meeting with the president to solve that issue.

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Joe Biden became the first sitting US president in modern memory to visit a union picket line, traveling to Van Buren township, Michigan, to address United Auto Workers members who have walked off the job at the big three automakers. The president argued that the workers deserve higher wages, and appeared alongside the union’s leader, Shawn Fain – who has yet to endorse Biden’s re-election bid. Back in Washington DC, Congress is as troubled as ever. The leaders of the House and Senate are trying to avoid a government shutdown, but there’s no telling if their plans will work. Meanwhile, more and more Democratic senators say Bob Menendez should resign his seat after being indicted on corruption charges, including his fellow Jerseyman, Cory Booker.

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Here’s what else is going on:

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• Hunter Biden’s latest salvo in his campaign of lawsuits is against Rudy Giuliani and another lawyer, whom he accuses of violating his privacy by going through his digital devices.

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• The supreme court told Alabama’s Republican leaders that they have to draw another majority-Black congressional district. They tried very hard to get out of doing so.

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• Here’s everything you need to know about the UAW’s leader, Shawn Fain.

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Biden concluded his visit to striking UAW workers by endorsing their demands for higher wages:

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Because the Related Press stories, he seems to have signed on to the union’s demand for a 40% wage bump:

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Joe Biden is now at a United Auto Workers picket line in Michigan and addressing striking workers.

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We’ll cover his remarks live here, and you can watch his appearance at the live stream embedded at the top of the page.

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Joe Biden will make the first visit by a US president to a union picket line in modern times this afternoon, when he joins striking United Auto Workers members in Michigan.

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“This is the most pro-union president in modern times,” Jean-Pierre told reporters on Air Force One during the flight to Wayne County, Michigan. “President Joe Biden’s continuing to show his support for union workers, in this case, autoworkers. This is something that he believes and you see that in his economic policy, and it’s in the big pieces of legislation that he’s gotten to pass and also sign, that he puts workers at the center of it.”

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Jean-Pierre declined to say which picket line Biden would visit. His itinerary takes him to the Detroit area, where the big three American automakers are headquartered, and where UAW members at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis plants and distribution centers have walked off the job amid protracted contract negotiations.

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At her ongoing press briefing on Air Force One, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre continues to dodge when asked if Joe Biden believes Bob Menendez should resign his Senate seat.

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“This is a serious matter. We take this very seriously. As I said yesterday, we think the senator did the right thing by stepping down from his chairmanship” of the foreign relations committee, which he did last week, she said. “As it relates to resigning, that is something that’s up to him and the leadership in the Senate. But, look, we take this very seriously.”

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Reporters continued trying to get her to reveal the president’s thoughts, but the effort was fruitless.

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In a major blow to Bob Menendez’s support, Cory Booker, his fellow Democratic senator from New Jersey, says he should resign following his indictment on corruption charges last week.

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“I believe stepping down is best for those Senator Menendez has spent his life serving,” said Booker, who supported Menendez when he previously faced corruption charges in 2015.

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Here’s Booker’s full statement:

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What was a trickle of Democratic senators calling on their New Jersey colleague Bob Menendez to resign following his indictment on bribery charges last week has become something of a stream, if not a flood. Several more lawmakers today announced they think he should go, including:

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Jon Tester of Montana, who is facing a tough re-election fight in the red state next year:

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Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin:

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Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey:

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And yesterday, another red state Democrat up for re-election, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, joined in the chorus:

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Expect more lawmakers to weigh in today. Two names to watch for in particular are Menendez’s fellow Jerseyman Cory Booker and Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, whose calls to resign, if they come, would be influential.

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The supreme court has turned down an attempt by Republican lawmakers in Alabama to defy a recent ruling and avoid drawing a second majority-Black congressional district in the state, CNN reports:

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In June, the supreme court ordered Alabama to draw a second congressional district where a majority of voters are African American, a decision expected to benefit Democrats, who tend to be favored among the group. The 5-4 decision citing the Voting Rights Act was something of a surprise, since it was signed on to by two of the court’s conservative majority, which is often skeptical of the landmark civil rights legislation.

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The decision was expected to affect other southern states and likely help Democrats in their quest to retake the majority in the House in next year’s elections. But rather than follow the decision, Republican lawmakers in Alabama drew new congressional maps that, like the previous version, included just one majority-Black district. Lawsuits were then filed against the maps, which have reached their conclusion with today’s supreme court decision.

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In the latest development in Hunter Biden’s legal counterattack against conservatives who have demonized him, the president’s son today sued Rudy Giuliani and his attorney, alleging they broke the law by accessing his electronic devices, CNN reports.

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Giuliani and Robert Costello spent years “hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from” his devices, alleges the lawsuit, which was filed in a California federal court and claims the pair caused “total annihilation” of his digital privacy.

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Hunter Biden has been at the center of Republicans’ impeachment efforts against Joe Biden, over unproven claims that the president benefited from allegedly corrupt business activities his son took part in overseas.

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It’s the third lawsuit by the president’s son against rightwing figures he claims have invaded his privacy in their quest to prove corruption. Last week, he sued the Internal Revenue Service, claiming the tax authority violated his privacy rights when two agents, saying they were whistleblowers, went public with allegations of political interference in an investigation of his conduct. He is also suing a former Donald Trump White House aide over claims of illegal hacking.

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CNN spoke to a source on Biden’s legal team, who signaled that more lawsuits would be coming. “Everyone involved in stealing and manipulating Hunter’s data should be hearing footsteps right about now,” the source said.

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The House and Senate are both back in session today and will make a last-ditch effort to stop the government shutdown expected on 1 October. According to mediareports, the Senate’s Democratic leadership plans at 5.30pm eastern time today to hold a vote on a measure that will keep the government open for 45 days and include little funding for disaster relief or Ukraine’s war effort that party leaders want. Assuming the so-called “clean” continuing resolution passes the chamber, it will go the House, where such a bill would normally attract bipartisan support.

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But with extreme rightwing lawmakers threatening to force a vote on ousting Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy if he shows any sign of working with the opposition, and there’s no saying yet if he’ll put the Senate’s legislation to a vote. McCarthy plans to at 6.30pm today hold a procedural vote on his own spending bill – the same kind of vote that failed last week due to the ongoing revolt by the far right. The prospects of the speaker’s effort therefore remain unclear, but one thing is for sure: if Congress doesn’t make any progress resolving this today, the shutdown odds increase.

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Here’s what else is going on today:

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• Joe Biden is heading to Michigan for a visit to a United Auto Workers picket line in what is expected to be a historic show of solidarity for an American president. He’ll be there at 12pm.

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• Now that they’re back at the Capitol, expect every senator to be asked if they think Robert Menendez, New Jersey’s Democratic senator who was last week indicted for using his position to do favors for the government of Egypt,should resign.

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• Hunter Biden filed another lawsuit against his conservative antagonists, this time alleging Rudy Giuliani and his ex-attorney tried to hack his devices, CNN reports.

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Immediately, Joe Biden turned the primary sitting US president in trendy reminiscence to go to a union picket line, touring to Van Buren township, Michigan, to deal with United Auto Staff members who’ve walked off the job on the massive three automakers. The president argued that the employees deserve greater wages, and appeared alongside the union’s chief, Shawn Fain – who has but to endorse Biden’s re-election bid.

Again in Washington DC, Congress is as troubled as ever. The Senate handed a stopgap funding invoice to quickly keep away from a authorities shutdown, however hard-right holdouts within the Home have refused to think about such a measure. As an alternative, Home Republicans are specializing in 4 long-term appropriations payments that received’t truly avert a shutdown.

Learn our full protection of in the present day’s shutdown developments right here.

In the meantime, increasingly more Democratic senators say Bob Menendez ought to resign his seat after being indicted on corruption prices, together with his fellow Jerseyman, Cory Booker.

Additional studying:

• Hunter Biden’s newest salvo in his marketing campaign of lawsuits is towards Rudy Giuliani and one other lawyer, whom he accuses of violating his privateness by going by way of his digital units.

• The supreme courtroom advised Alabama’s Republican leaders that they’ve to attract one other majority-Black congressional district. They tried very laborious to get out of doing so.

• Donald Trump added at the very least two veteran attorneys to his felony protection crew, as he prepares to combat 91 felony prices beneath 4 indictments.

• Trump’s attorneys plan to enchantment choose’s ruling in the present day that he dedicated fraud whereas constructing empire. Right here is the place every investigation stats.

  – Chris Stein and Maanvi Singh

The goverment may shut down 1 October. This is what it means

Robert Tait

What occurs when a US authorities shutdown takes place?

Hundreds of federal authorities staff are placed on furlough, which means that they’re advised to not report for work and go unpaid for the interval of the shutdown, though their salaries are paid retroactively when it ends.

Different authorities employees who carry out what are judged important companies, resembling air site visitors controllers and legislation enforcement officers, proceed to work however don’t receives a commission till Congress acts to finish the shutdown.

Relying on how lengthy it lasts, nationwide parks can both shut totally or open with out sure important companies resembling public bathrooms or attendants. Passport processing can cease, as can analysis – at nationwide well being institutes.

The Biden administration has warned that federal inspections guaranteeing meals security and prevention of the discharge of harmful supplies into consuming water may cease at some point of the shutdown.

About 10,000 youngsters aged three and 4 might also lose entry to Head Begin, a federally funded program to advertise faculty readiness amongst toddlers, particularly amongst low-income households.

What causes a shutdown?

Merely put, the phrases of a bit of laws referred to as the Anti-Deficiency Act, first handed in 1884, prohibits federal businesses from spending or obligating funds with out an act of appropriation – or some different type of approval – from Congress.

If Congress fails to enact the 12 annual appropriations payments wanted to fund the US authorities’s actions and related forms, all non-essential work should stop till it does. If Congress enacts a number of the payments however not others, the businesses affected by the payments not enacted are compelled to stop regular functioning; this is named a partial authorities shutdown.

How uncommon are US authorities shutdowns?

For the primary 200 years of the US’s existence, they didn’t occur in any respect. In latest many years, they’ve turn out to be an more and more common a part of the political panorama, as Washington politics has turn out to be extra polarized and brinkmanship a commonplace political instrument. There have been 20 federal funding gaps since 1976, when the US first shifted the beginning of its fiscal yr to 1 October.

Three shutdowns specifically have entered US political lore:

A 21-day partial closure in 1995 over a dispute about spending cuts between President Invoice Clinton and the Republican speaker, Newt Gingrich, that’s broadly seen as setting the tone for later partisan congressional struggles.

In 2013, when the federal government was partially closed for 16 days after one other Republican-led Congress tried to make use of finances negotiations to defund Barack Obama’s signature Reasonably priced Care Act, broadly referred to as Obamacare.

A 34-day shutdown, the longest on file, lasting from December 2018 till January 2019, when Donald Trump refused to signal any appropriations invoice that didn’t embody $5.7bn funding for a border wall alongside the US border with Mexico. The closure broken Trump’s ballot rankings.

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Matt Gaetz, the far-right Florida congressman who has been main resistance towards Kevin McCarthy, basically mentioned he plans to have the speaker eliminated.

“The one factor I agree with my Democrat colleagues on is for the final eight months, the Home has been poorly led,” he mentioned, talking on the Home flooring. “We’ve to do one thing about it.”

Gaetz is main the cost to concentrate on these separate spending payments, and has held that he and 7 members who would block any plan to move a stopgap measure to avert a shutdown on 1 October.

In the meantime, the Home is debating guidelines for 4 lengthytime period appropriations payments, which might fund protection, agriculture, the state division and homeland safety for a hear – however is not going to avert a shutdown.

Even when all these measures move, giant swathes of the federal government will stay with out funding, and would shut down. However extra importantly, these appropriations payments, which include funding cuts supported by far-right Home members, can be lifeless on arrival within the Senate, the place the Democratic majority would reject them.

Conversely, hard-right Republicans within the Home are refusing to think about the stopgap measure the Senate simply handed.

Senate votes to advance stopgap funding invoice to keep away from shutdown

The Senate voted to advance a short lived authorities funding invoice that goals to keep away from a partial authorities shutdown on Sunday.

The vote places the Senate on a path to move a unbroken decision (CR) later this week, that would then ship to the Home.

Donald Trump plans to enchantment a New York choose’s ruling that discovered the previous president dedicated fraud for years whereas constructing the true property empire that catapulted him to fame and the White Home, in response to his lawyer.

The assertion from Trump basic counsel Alina Habba reads:

Immediately’s resolution is essentially flawed at each degree. It is very important keep in mind that the Trump Group is an American success story. The truth that this Court docket summarily discovered that there isn’t any query of reality, discovering partially that Mar-a-Lago is value roughly $20 million and challenge a choice of this magnitude is an affront to our authorized system.

We intend to right away enchantment this resolution as a result of President Trump and his household, like each American enterprise proprietor, is entitled to their day in courtroom.

Trump provides at the very least two attorneys to felony protection crew – report

Donald Trump has added at the very least two veteran attorneys to his felony protection crew as he faces 91 felony prices beneath 4 indictments.

Rormer federal prosecutor Emil Bove and seasoned white collar protection lawyer Kendra Wharton have signed onto the authorized crew organized by Trump legal professional Todd Blanche, in response to a Politico report.

Bove, who was co-chief of the nationwide safety unit on the Manhattan US legal professional’s workplace, and Wharton are anticipated to work on Trump’s New York felony case introduced by Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg and the federal instances filed by particular counsel Jack Smith, in response to the report.

The hires are probably the most important new authorized additions to Trump’s felony protection crew as he prepares for a number of felony trials scheduled for subsequent yr. They coincide with Smith’s personal addition to his crew, the report says.

Wael Hana, an Egyptian American businessman indicted in a bribery scheme with New Jersey senator, Bob Menendez, pleaded not responsible and was launched on bail in federal courtroom.

Hana, 40, entered the plea at a listening to in federal courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday, after he was arrested at John F Kennedy worldwide airport upon his voluntary return from Egypt.

Hana faces one depend of conspiracy to commit bribery and one depend of conspiracy to commit sincere companies wire fraud, which carry most jail sentences of 5 and 20 years respectively.

Prosecutors say Hana organized conferences in 2018 between Menendez and Egyptian officers, through which officers pressed the senator and chair of the Senate international relations committee to log out on army help Washington had withheld over considerations in regards to the nation’s human rights file.

Prosecutors say Hana gave the senator’s spouse, Nadine Menendez, a “low-show or no-show job,” paid $23,000 towards her dwelling mortgage, wrote $30,000 checks to her consulting firm, promised her envelopes of money, despatched her train tools and purchased a number of the gold bars that had been discovered within the couple’s dwelling, AP reported.

New Jersey first girl Tammy Murphy is going through calls to run for the seat held by embattled Senator Bob Menendez.

Murphy is “seriously considering a run” after talking to Democrats about probably operating for Menendez’s seat, in response to a number of stories.

Menendez is going through a rising variety of calls to step down after he and his spouse had been indicted on corruption prices. He has insisted he is not going to resign.

The 79-page stopgap spending invoice, unveiled by the Senate majority chief, Chuck Schumer, and the Senate minority chief, Mitch McConnell, wouldn’t embody any border safety measures, a significant sticking level for Home Republicans, Reuters reported.

The short-term invoice would avert a authorities shutdown on Sunday whereas additionally offering billions in catastrophe reduction and help to Ukraine.

The invoice contains $4.5bn from an operations and upkeep fund for the protection division “to stay out there till Sept. 30, 2024 to reply to the scenario in Ukraine,” in response to the measure’s textual content.

The invoice additionally contains one other $1.65bn in state division funding for extra help to Ukraine that may be out there till 30 September 2025.

Senate leaders attain deal on stopgap funding invoice to keep away from shutdown

The Senate majority chief, Chuck Schumer, and the Senate minority chief, Mitch McConnell, reached an settlement on a stopgap spending plan that may maintain the federal government open previous Saturday.

A bipartisan Senate draft measure would fund the federal government by way of 17 November and embody round $6bn in new help to Ukraine and roughly $6bn in catastrophe funding, Reuters reported.

Talking earlier in the present day, Schumer mentioned:

We are going to proceed to fund the federal government at current ranges whereas sustaining our dedication to Ukraine’s safety and humanitarian wants, whereas additionally guaranteeing these impacted by pure disasters throughout the nation start to get the assets they want.

Joe Biden’s canine, Commander, bit one other Secret Service agent on the White Home on Monday.

In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson, Anthony Guglielmi, mentioned:

Yesterday round 8pm, a Secret Service Uniformed Division police officer got here involved with a First Household pet and was bitten. The officer was handled by medical personnel on complicated.

Commander has been concerned in at the very least 11 biting incidents on the White Home and on the Biden household dwelling in Delaware. One such incident in November 2022 left an officer hospitalized after being bitten on the arms and thighs.

One other of the president’s canines, Main, was faraway from the White Home and relocated to Delaware following a number of reported biting incidents.

Choose orders a few of Trump’s enterprise licenses to be rescinded

Ruling in a civil lawsuit introduced by the New York legal professional basic Letitia James, Choose Arthur Engoron ordered that a few of Donald Trump’s enterprise licenses be rescinded as punishment after discovering the previous president dedicated fraud by massively overvaluing his property and exaggerating his internet value.

The choose additionally mentioned he would proceed to have an unbiased monitor oversee the Trump Group’s operations.

James sued Trump and his grownup sons final yr, alleging widespread fraud related to the Trump Group and searching for $250m {and professional} sanctions. She has mentioned Trump inflated his internet value by as a lot as $2.23bn, and by one measure as a lot as $3.6bn, on annual monetary statements given to banks and insurers.

Belongings whose values had been inflated included Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, his penthouse residence in Manhattan’s Trump Tower, and numerous workplace buildings and golf programs, she mentioned.

In his ruling, Choose Engoron mentioned James had established legal responsibility for false valuations of a number of properties, Mar-a-Lago and the penthouse. He wrote:

In defendants’ world: hire regulated flats are value the identical as unregulated flats; restricted land is value the identical as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into skinny air; a disclaimer by one celebration casting accountability on one other celebration exonerates the opposite celebration’s lies. That may be a is a fantasy world, not the true world.

Choose’s ruling marks main victory for New York legal professional basic’s civil case towards Trump

Choose Arthur F Engoron’s ruling marks a significant victory for New York legal professional basic Letitia James’s civil case towards Donald Trump.

Within the civil fraud swimsuit, James is suing Trump, his grownup sons, Donald TrumpJr and Eric Trump, and the Trump Group for $250m.

Immediately’s ruling, in a section of the case referred to as abstract judgment, resolves the important thing declare in James’s lawsuit, however six others stay.

Trump has repeatedly sought to delay or throw out the case, and has repeatedly been rejected. He has additionally sued the choose, with an appeals courtroom anticipated to rule this week on his lawsuit.

Choose finds Donald Trump dedicated fraud in New York civil case

A New York state choose has granted partial abstract judgment to the New York legal professional basic, Letitia James, within the civil case towards Donald Trump.

Choose Arthur F Engoron discovered that Trump dedicated fraud for years whereas constructing his actual property empire, and that the previous president and his firm deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his property and exaggerating his internet value on paperwork utilized in making offers and securing financing, AP stories:

Past mere bragging about his riches, Trump, his firm and key executives repeatedly lied about them on his annual monetary statements, reaping rewards resembling favorable mortgage phrases and decrease insurance coverage premiums, Engoron discovered.

These ways crossed a line and violated the legislation, the choose mentioned in his ruling on Tuesday.

The choice by Choose Engoron precedes a trial that’s scheduled to start on Monday. James, a Democrat, sued Trump and his grownup sons final yr, alleging widespread fraud related to the Trump Group and searching for $250m {and professional} sanctions.

Joe Biden has warned that Individuals may very well be “compelled to pay the worth” as a result of Home Republicans “refuse to face as much as the extremists of their celebration”.

Because the Home standoff stretches on, the White Home has accused Republicans of taking part in politics on the expense of the American folks.

Biden tweeted:

We may very well be going through a authorities shutdown if Republicans within the Home don’t do their job.

Speaker McCarthy and I got here to an settlement on spending ranges for the federal government a number of months in the past.

However now, Home Republicans refuse to face as much as the extremists of their celebration—and…

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 26, 2023

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We may very well be going through a authorities shutdown if Republicans within the Home don’t do their job.

Speaker McCarthy and I got here to an settlement on spending ranges for the federal government a number of months in the past.

However now, Home Republicans refuse to face as much as the extremists of their celebration—and…

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 26, 2023