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From the PEP Radio Newsroom, we have this update about the EPA and healthcare funding:

Largest EPA union says health care must be funded in deal to end shutdown (10:38 AM EST)

The leader of the largest union representing Environmental Protection Agency workers says any deal to reopen the government must include funding for healthcare.
Justin Chen, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, said Monday that “the very foundation of EPA’s mission is to protect human health. We cannot build a healthy nation while denying Americans the right to access affordable healthcare.’'
Chen’s statement puts the EPA union at odds with its broader national leadership. AFGE President Everett Kelley, whose union represents more than 800,000 government workers, said last week that it was “time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship.”
In statements issued separately, Chen and Kelley agreed that civil servants should not be used as political pawns in the ongoing standoff.
That’s what we know for now. From the PEP Radio Newsroom, I’m David Moore reporting.
-- Per the Associated Press