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* A federal judge today granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown, which has now stretched to two weeks. * Trump has threatened to cut more “Democrat programs” and said he would release a list of priorities on Friday if the government remained closed. The White House Office of Management and Budget said in a social media post it was preparing for more layoffs. * The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report: the Labor Department’s monthly inflation data. The figures are needed for the government to calculate the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, which is also delayed. * The conservative-majority Supreme Court today appeared open to underm

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