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The Supreme Court has extended a freeze on a federal judge's ruling to require SNAP to be fully funded in November, and for now, the Trump administration does not have to distribute the additional four billion dollars in SNAP funding.
Now, the Supreme Court's block on full SNAP payments does remain in effect until Thursday at midnight.
Meantime, the government shutdown is on a path to end as soon as tomorrow.
Last night, the Senate advanced a temporary funding measure to reopen most of the government through January thirtieth.
The deal was reached after Democratic moderates dropped their demands to renew expiring tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
Now the bill goes to the Republican controlled House for approval.
Here is Minority Leader Jakim Jeffreys.
Speaker 2We're focus right now on pressing the case in addressing the Republican healthcare crisis.
Will be before the Rules Committee in moments, will have a family conversation as well.
House Democrats were strongly opposed as House Democrats to this reckless Republican effort.
To continue to raise the high cost of living on everyday Americans, which is exactly what they're doing by failing to extend the Affordable Care Access Credit.
Speaker 1That is House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries.
Incidentally, the House is planning to vote tomorrow.
He as the shutdown could end this week.
However, it's not yet over and more flights are being disrupted.
Airports serving Chicago, Atlanta, and New York were hit the hardest by government mandated flight cuts.
We heard from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
He spoke to reporters on how soon flights would return to normal once the bill is passed by the House.
Speaker 3We are going to look.
Speaker 4At the data and make the best decisions possible to keep the travel in public safe.
That's what we've done.
When that data changes, we're going to start taking down from six MAYOBE will go to four two and get back to normal air travel.
But I want to just clarify what we've done and why we've done it.
Speaker 1Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaking to reporters Now.
The FAA began pairing back air traffic last week due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.
Separately we are told airline executives privately asked for more information on the data used to justify those flight cuts.
Aids to President Trump are reviewing federal funds that benefit New York City to potentially suspend or even cancel them after Zoron Mamdani's victory in the city's mayoral race.
According to a White House official, the administration is waiting on President Trump to greenlight any funding freeze.
Now, the White House and the mayor elects transition team have not been in touch.
Mamdani did campaign on a platform that includes freezing the rent on more than one million rent stabilized apartments.
He also wants to provide universal childcare and fund free buses.
Mamdani also envisions city owned grocery stores.
His aim is to pay for this agenda with new taxes on both corporations and high income earners.
In Nvidia shareholders, soft Bank sold its entire stake in the chip maker.
That sale netted five point eighty three billion dollars.
Now, soft Bank will use the proceeds to help a bankroll investments in artificial intelligence, and that will include a bigger bet on open AI.
At the same time, soft Bank also reported net income for the latest quarter top estimates.
However, shares are down more than four percent in the Tokyo session.
Here is Bloomberg's Annabel Drowlers.
Speaker 3Just thinking about what it could be so far.
I mean, there has been something that's been indicated by analysts like those Smart Karma for instance, who are saying that given you've seen such a surge in the share price over this year, they could be opening up to profit taking essentially.
So that is perhaps what is playing into the dynamics so far, just investors looking again to take advantage essentially all that big surge that we've seen.
Speaker 1That is Bloomberg's Annabel Jewelers.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Besst is downplaying and concerns about high cost under President Trump.
Besson said the administration inherited elevated price levels.
Here is the Treasury Secretary speaking this morning on MSNBC.
Speaker 5When you ask over the next six or twelve months, there are two parts to affordability.
There's the price level, and we inherited a mess.
It was the worst inflation forty or fifty years.
And I think what the President was very frustrated about is you said, everyone started talking about it that after he took office.
Where was the discussion during Joe Biden.
Speaker 1That is Treasury Secretary Scott Besson speaking on MSNBC.
He went on to say, rising working class wages will address the affordability issue.
We go to the Middle East next.
The US military is exploring the idea of building a temporary base near the Gaza Strip as a means to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Now, the Navy sent a request for information to various contractors for the cost of a base that can support ten thousand people and provide ten thousand square feet of office space for a year.
This request was sent back on October thirty first, with responses due three days later.
Now, the White House said these plans have not been approved, and Press Secretary Caroline Levitt dismissed the document as just a piece of paper produced by random people in the military.
And that is news when you want it with Bloomberg News.
Now, I'm Doug Prisner, and this is Bloomberg
