This is the longest shutdown in US history

By Meg Wagner, Veronica Rocha and Amanda Wills, CNN

Updated 10:56 a.m. ET, January 22, 2019
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12:19 p.m. ET, January 19, 2019

Trump will offer to extend DACA protections in exchange for the wall, source says

In his announcement this afternoon, President Trump is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for border wall funding, a source confirms.

The proposal would allow those immigrants to remain in the country. The Trump administration has previously rescinded protections of some TPS holders and announced plans to phase out the DACA program.

It's unclear whether Democrats will be open to the proposal. They've so far refused to provide any funding for the border wall, insisting that Trump reopen the government first.

Trump will now speak from the White House at 4 p.m. ET.

11:17 a.m. ET, January 19, 2019

Trump plans to make Democrats an offer to end the shutdown

From CNN's Abby Phillip and Betsy Klein

President Donald Trump is planning to make Democrats an offer to end the government shutdown in a speech from the White House at 3 p.m., according to a senior administration official.

Trump is not expected to back down from his demand for a border wall, but the plan will seek to entice Democrats by offering other concessions, the official said.

White House officials are pessimistic that it will change much in stalled talks, because Democrats have previously refused to counter the White House's proposal. Instead they have insisted that the President reopen the government, then engage in negotiations over border security.

The official said Trump is not expected to announce a decision on declaring a national emergency during Saturday's speech, but nothing is definite until it's announced by the President.

When asked today if he would be calling for a national emergency, Trump didn't answer -- only saying he would be making an "important statement" this afternoon.

"I'm going to be making a statement at 3 p.m.," Trump said. "I will be making an important statement."

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3:18 p.m. ET, January 18, 2019

Sarah Sanders on State of the Union date: "We'll keep you posted"

From CNN's Betsy Klein 

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was noncommittal on the prospects of a State of the Union address days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the President asking him to postpone the speech due to the government shutdown. 

Here's how Sanders put it:

“We’ll keep you posted. Look, as the President has done every single day since he got into office, he’s going to continue to communicate directly with the American people whether it’s speeches across the country, through social media, through taking questions from you guys and we’ll continue to do whether on it’s on Capitol Hill or elsewhere."

 Asked again whether there would be an address on Jan. 29, she wouldn’t say.

 “We’ll certainly keep you posted on that front,” she said.

 

3:15 p.m. ET, January 18, 2019

White House: Federal workers missing paychecks "absolutely" adds to shutdown urgency

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the possibility that furloughed workers could miss another paycheck is "absolutely" adding to the urgency of the government shutdown.

"Absolutely. That's one of the key reasons that the President did not want Speaker Pelosi to leave the country," Sanders said, referencing Trump's letter denying Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi use of a military aircraft for a trip to Afghanistan.

She continued: "If she did it would all be guarantee the fact that the negotiations couldn't take place over the weekend and federal workers, 800,000 federal workers wouldn't receive their paychecks because she wasn't here to help make a deal."

Hundreds of thousands workers missed their first paychecks last week.

Sanders was also asked about some Democrats' concerns that the shutdown could affect the upcoming Super Bowl in Atlanta.

"If the Democrats have those types of concerns, they should sit down at the table and negotiate with the President," she said.

3:03 p.m. ET, January 18, 2019

Democratic leader: This shutdown is "the dumbest in history"

From CNN's Annie Grayer, Ashley Killough and Ryan Nobles

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who emerged from a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said Democrats will continue bringing up spending bills next week.

“This is a shutdown that is the longest in history. It’s the dumbest in history. And it may well be the most damaging in history.”

On the Super Bowl being a national security event, Hoyer didn’t say whether he thinks it should be canceled or postponed

“These national security events, we need to have people at their sharpest, we need them concentrating on their job. Not on whether they can pay their mortgage payment, not on whether they can pay their car payment, not on whether they can put up food on their table.”

2:23 p.m. ET, January 18, 2019

How the shutdown is affecting criminal cases

From CNN's David Shortell

The Association of Assistant US Attorneys says the shutdown is affecting some criminal cases.   

DNA testing is not being “timely performed” in some cases, and lack of track funds means some interviews of victims and witnesses aren’t happening, the association said in a statement. 

“Crime investigations and grand jury panels are slowing down, while perpetrators remain at large," the statement read.
1:25 p.m. ET, January 18, 2019

Pray your identity isn't stolen during the shutdown — the website to report it is shuttered

From CNN's Paul P. Murphy

The government website website Americans use to report stolen identity cases has been shuttered by the government shutdown. 

An estimated nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year — That’s almost 25,000 identities stolen each day. 

“Recovering from identity theft is easier with a plan,” says a government public service announcement video about the website. “You can generate the letters and forms that you need, track your progress and keep detailed records of people that you’ve talked to."

IndentityTheft.gov now looks like this:

CNN attempted to contact the FTC for comment and received an automated reply, saying that their public affairs office was closed and there would be no response.

How it's impacting customers: Julie Korts, 52, was shopping for the holidays on Dec. 19 in Plymouth, Minnesota. In the course of three minutes, she got a phone call, text and email notification.

“The phone then rang again, and I answered,” she told CNN. “It was Citicorp who handles my Home Depot credit card.”

No, she had not just bought $37 worth of stuff at a Pomona, California, Home Depot. But someone using her identity did.

Korts did what she was supposed to: She made a report with her local police department and contacted the Federal Trade Commission to file a report.

The FTC directed her to IndentityTheft.gov — the shuttered website — which usually guides victims through each step of the recovery process with a personalized recovery program.

“Every day I wonder how much of my life is ruined,” she says. “Every day I wake up and wonder who will call today…I just don’t know what to do next.”

1:16 p.m. ET, January 18, 2019

Nancy Pelosi: Trump "outing" our trip to Afghanistan made it too dangerous

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, speaking about President Trump's letter denying her congressional delegation a military plane to visit troops in Afghanistan, said Trump's "outing" of the trip made it more dangerous.

She said she received a report from Afghanistan that said "the President outing our trip had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous."

“You never give advance notice of going into a battle area," Pelosi said. "Perhaps the President’s inexperience didn’t have him understand that protocol. The people around him, though, should have known that. Because that’s very dangerous.”

Pelosi said her team was ready to fly commercial — until the administration leaked news of the visit.

"We had the prerogative to travel commercially and we made plans to do that until the administration then leaked that we were traveling commercially and that endangers us.”

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11:42 a.m. ET, January 18, 2019

Furloughed worker: The shutdown is "psychologically traumatizing"

From CNN’s Sofia Barrett

Brenner Stiles, an Army veteran and furloughed federal worker, said the effects of the government shutdown are “psychologically traumatizing."

“I’ve cried in my car. At least two times I’ve cried in my shower,” she told CNN as she explained how she has tried to hide her stress from her family.

Stiles, who is a mother of three, said she's gone into "survival mode," trying to make dinner last a few days and cutting down on any beverages other than tea and water.

“You have to get into survival mode," she said. "I’ve spoken to a lot of colleagues, and friends, and co-workers, and they are doing the same thing. They’re in survival mode.”

Although she doesn’t believe the government has let her down, she said she believes federal workers are being mistreated.

"It just seems like federal employees are utilized as pawns in American politics," she said.

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