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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Republican claims that Democrats were shutting down the government to give healthcare to undocumented immigrants “a total, absolute, effing lie.”

“They [Republicans] are afraid of the truth,” Schumer said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“They know what they’ve done to healthcare has decimated healthcare for so much of America.”

He added, “There are Republicans on the Senate side who are saying, ‘Let’s sit down and negotiate.”

“We should, and it has to, by the way, it’s not just [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune. It has to include [Speaker Mike] Johnson,” he said.

— Luke Fountain

Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley said neither the U.S. economy nor the business community need a government shutdown right now, amid this “sensitive time for our country.”

“It’s not a good thing,” Farley said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We really need the leaders in D.C. to come together. It’s a very sensitive time for our country. We need the leadership to unite. We cannot have a shutdown. That is bad for the economy and bad for our country.”

Farley’s comments came as the automaker was hosting an inaugural event in Detroit to promote the “essential economy” of U.S. skilled trades and labor.

– Michael Wayland

The Federal Trade Commission said it will be closed during the shutdown, preventing consumers from reporting fraud.

“The FTC is closed due to the lapse in funding,” the agency’s website currently says.

The FTC is in charge of protecting consumers from unfair and fraudulent business practices. It also has oversight of anticompetitive mergers and partnerships.

The closure “means we won’t be able to answer your questions on X. Consumers cannot report fraud or register for Do Not Call during this time,” the agency’s Office of Technology said in a post on X.

On Tuesday, the FTC announced a lawsuit against real estate giants Zillow and Redfin alleging antitrust violations.

— Luke Fountain

The Senate rejected a last-ditch measure on Tuesday evening to keep the government funded through Nov. 20.

The final vote was 55-45, falling short of the 60-vote threshold that would have passed the measure in the upper chamber.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted with Democrats to oppose the measure, while Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Angus King, I-Maine, voted with Republicans in support.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., presides over a razor-thin majority, so he needs at least seven Democrats to vote with his party to get any legislation passed.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., however, is trying to keep his Democratic colleagues on board with his effort to stand firm on his party’s health care demands.

Schumer has faced pressure from the progressive wing of his party to oppose any government funding legislation unless it includes key health-care concessions.

— Erin Doherty

With all eyes on the impending government shutdown, the White House confirmed late Tuesday that it withdrew the nomination of E.J. Antoni, Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump nominated Antoni, an economist with the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, after he fired former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer in response to her agency releasing a weak monthly jobs report.

Antoni “is a brilliant economist and an American patriot that will continue to do good work on behalf of our great country,” a White House official told CNBC in a statement Tuesday night.

“President Trump is committed to fixing the longstanding failures at the BLS that have undermined the public’s trust in critical economic data. The President plans to announce a…