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It’s Friday! Happy Halloween, spooky friends! 👻🦇🎃 A presidential historian posted a 📸photo of JFK’s children in their Halloween costumes , and they are legitimately scary.

In today's issue:

• Trump throws himself into the shutdown

• Johnson uncomfortable with Trump’s ‘nuclear option’

• GOP anxious about Johnson’s extended recess

• Food stamp freeze to start on Saturday

• Could a judge stop the food stamp suspension?

• New Dr. Seuss book discovered

🦇 GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

Have we reached the point where Trump gets involved?:

It’s Day 31 of the government shutdown , and for most of it, President Trump has largely remained on the sidelines. He’s stayed bus

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