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00:00The Post gets action. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the guy taking the heat for not

00:04providing enough Democrat votes to open the government, took to the Senate floor to respond

00:08to Wednesday's New York Post cover, which creatively read, they don't give a chuck,

00:13as the ongoing shutdown risks food aid for 43 million Americans. Schumer focused specifically

00:19on pushing to bring a bill to the floor that would only fund food stamps and thus would clear

00:24up the issue of tens of millions of hungry Americans, while the rest of the issues holding

00:28up progress remain at a stalemate. There's a bill right now from Senator Hawley,

00:33Republican, a conservative Republican, that could ensure SNAP is funded.

00:38It has Republican and Democratic support. It's a bill I'd happily support and vote for.

00:44Senate Majority Leader John Thune has so far requested calls for smaller spending bills after

00:49Democrats voted 13 times to keep the government shut down. And it's not just food stamps that

00:53get hit at the end of the month. Air traffic controllers have been told not to expect their

00:57paychecks. At one of the country's busiest airports, Newark, a ground stop halted all

01:02flights for more than an hour due to staffing issues pegged to the shutdown. Congressional

01:06staffers who've been working through this shutdown have also been told not to expect their paychecks.

01:12LOL, OMG, you up? These are messages you might expect to get via text. You're fired is not one of

01:20them. Well, no one told Jeff Bezos. Amazon is laying off a whopping 14,000 employees,

01:25and at least some of them reportedly learned their fate via text message. Classy. Business

01:31Insider first reported the move, claiming that Amazon sent affected workers two messages early

01:36Tuesday when the layoffs began. One message urged employees to check both their personal and work

01:41emails before coming into the office, because that's not ominous. This was apparently so they

01:46wouldn't show up at the office to find out that they were let go because their badges didn't work.

01:51Woof. That is ice cold. The second text might have been worse. The second text told employees to

01:59call the help desk if they had not received a, quote, email message about your role. Being laid off

02:04sucks, but being texted by your job and instructed to then call said job to see if you still had said

02:11job, that's just rude. What's worse? This could be just the beginning. The reduction in workforce,

02:16which HR says is aimed at cleaning up bureaucracy, could, according to Reuters, land 30,000 people or

02:229% of the company on the unemployment line over the next few weeks. Even more cuts are expected in

02:28January once the busy holiday shopping season is over. Santa doesn't need to check twice. Bezos is

02:33no doubt on the naughty list. President Putin's special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, told an investment

02:40conference in Saudi Arabia this week that Russia's war with Ukraine is nearing its end,

02:45despite that breakdown of diplomacy between Putin and President Trump. Putin's deputy said, quote,

02:51we are sure that we are on the road to peace and as peacemakers, we need to make it happen.

02:55He then added that he believed the war would be over within a year, which sounds oddly optimistic

03:01from the Kremlin considering how violent things have been recently. The economic envoy also suggested his

03:08country did not want the conflict to escalate beyond the borders of the two countries. Well, someone should

03:13tell President Putin that because testing his, quote, and big air quotes again, invincible nuclear missile

03:20is not really something you do when you're trying to avoid provoking other world powers. He did,

03:26however, admit on that topic, quote, we have to do better than we've been doing. You don't say.

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