>> Hello and thanks for joining us on Chicago tonight.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

The government shutdown hits the 30 day.

Mark, a look at who's feeling the pressure and whether it will begin moving the needle in Washington.

Meanwhile, if Congress fails to extend subsidies, Illinois residents may see a sharp increase in health care premiums.

What you should know as enrollment begins.

>> I its important to have honoring remembering at the >> And celebrating day of the dead at a local museum.

>> First off tonight, basic human decency.

That's what Governor JB Pritzker says he's asking for from the federal government in making the request to pause immigration raids for the next 3 days allowing families to celebrate Halloween.

>> I think their response will be revealing.

They've disrupted everything for more than 2 months already.

Give the children and the families of Illinois.

A break.

>> or sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials citing the tear gas agents deployed in old Irving Park last weekend as kids were preparing for a Halloween parade.

Speaking in Gary, Indiana today.

Secretary Noem has already responded to the governor.

Hard pass.

We're absolutely not willing to put on pause any work that we will do to keep communities safe.

>> The fact Governor Pritzker's asking for that shameful.

And I think unfortunate that he doesn't recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we're bringing criminals to justice and getting them offer sheet, especially when we're going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season.

>> For more on how Chicagoans are working together to help kids feel safe.

This Halloween, you can visit our website.

The father of a teenage girl fighting cancer has been released from ICE custody after a judge today granted him a $2000 Bond.

>> The ice officers broke the window and pickup truck.

Forced him out of the car, never presented a warrant, refused to make a call to his wife.

Despite his pleas that.

We had yet daughter.

Held him mandatory detention.

>> Ruben Torres Maldonado was detained by immigration agents earlier this month after living in Chicago since 2003.

His 16 year-old daughter has a rare form of cancer that is in stage 4 attorneys and activists made a plea for his release earlier this week.

Durant today during an immigration hearing, judge even Saltzman granted him bond saying she believes he has a very strong incentive to appear at future hearings to apply for a cancellation of removal.

This would allow him to remain in the U.S.

lawfully due to the hardship facing his family.

Up next, a fresh look at the government shutdown as it's set to enter its second month.

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And the support of these don't >> Today Marks day 30 of the federal government shutdown and with no deal in sight, the country is likely to break the record.

35 days said during President Donald Trump's first term in 2019.

Meanwhile, thousands of federal workers are still on the job without pay as Democrats and Republicans in Congress remain deadlocked over a funding agreement.

Joining us with more on who Americans are blaming and when the shutdown might finally end.

Our Jon Mark Hanson, political science professor at the University of Chicago and Tabitha Bonia and associate professor at the Institute.

A policy research at Northwestern University.

Thanks to the 2 of you for joining us.

have the starting with you, please.

What does the polling say about who Americans are blaming for the shutdown?

>> Well, right now.

>> And most Americans are blaming Republicans slightly more than about a quarter of the country is uncertain who to blame.

But about 45% of Americans are blaming Republicans a 3rd of Americans are blaming Democrats.

But of course, this is partisan.

So more Democrats are blaming Republicans and more Republicans are blaming Democrats but I think on on average most playground people, if they're blaming someone going to be blaming Democrats or Republicans.

Sorry, okay.

Butting Republicans more.

But as you said, it's it's divided on partisan lines as well.

part >> So on that happened on October TWENTY-SEVENTH, the largest union representing federal workers came out publicly in support of the Clean continuing resolution, which congressional Democrats have rejected.

Do you see Democrats feeling the pressure to come back and pass that clean CR so that federal workers can get paid again.

>> I do think that their guns building pressure for them to pass that.

I also think that there is.

Understandable concern that if they do so they may not have the same strength to hold their ground to protect the health care subsidies that they're trying to push for later on in.

So I I I think the pressure is not fully on their side.

And then I also think if you look at what you need instead in the last election cycle, they were not fully taking sides of Democrats as they had maybe historically.

So I don't know that that is necessarily going to be biggest driver for pushing Democrats to to give in at this point.

>> John, Mark Hansen, sort of to that same point.

You know, Democrats say the shutdown is about protecting those expanded ACA subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year.

Republicans argue that the government should open first then we can negotiate on this issue.

But if the government does reopen without those subsidies in place, can Democrats trust the Republicans and President Trump?

We'll negotiate on this issue and and even give them what they want at the end of those negotiations.

>> Well, they don't.

think that that would be case.

One of the things that we've seen is that there is no deal with Donald Trump.

That's done deal.

promising makes a solid promise.

And so I think Democrats feeling well, you know, if we just give up return for a promise talk about, will get nothing at all.

In the meantime, if we extend and that includes even with the pressure government unions, if we extend the shut down, we're going to get in a period the the shutdown began.

More that benefits will come to an end on November.

1st.

So very, very soon.

expiration of the Obamacare subsidies will happen to be in December.

the more that they can kind of keep a focus on the app.

think probably the better for the Democrats.

We've already seen.

hesitation Republican ranks too.

Go through with the health care subsidies for Obama care.

And even beyond that, couple of years, the expiration of over the implementation of Medicare cuts.

Medicaid got made that were implemented part the reconciliation Act.

big beautiful bill passed last this last year.

>> funding for the Supplemental Nutrition.

Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

As you mentioned, it's going to run dry November first as a result of the shutdown.

Here's what Republican Speaker Mike Johnson had to say about using emergency funds to keep snap going.

>> Republicans have voted 14 times to provide SNAP benefits, military pay veterans, health services, nutrition assistance for young women.

We the disabled, the elderly.

We've done it.

14 Democrats voted 14 times to block all of that.

We need to do all of those things simultaneously.

You have to pay the troops.

You have to be border patrol.

Tsa agents and air traffic controllers and everybody else.

All of these things need to be done.

Not just part of them.

>> So, John, what do you make of the speakers argument that all programs affected by the shutdown need to be funded simultaneously?

>> Well, that's exactly what they have proposed snow.

They're basically giving us the vote on continuing resolution to the budget that passed last were conditional several months few weeks.

So there's really nothing new there by the same token, you know, what will happen is they those cuts right now a suspect those cuts will become real.

even though there's a stereotype out Supplemental nutrition program is something only benefits or been In fact, it's very, very important.

Even Republican constituencies.

And so pressure going increase as well on public, wants something doing something Michael and having serious talk with Democrats for.

>> One of those Republicans, one of those congressional has come out in support of extending these ACA health care subsidies.

Marjorie Taylor, Greene, typically a staunch Trump supporter.

She wrote on X, quote, I'm going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expired this year, my own adult children's premiums for 2026 are going to double along with all the wonderful families and hardworking people in my district, top of the bunny.

what happens if Republicans Republican constituencies also start to feel the pain of higher health care premiums.

>> think that's currently what we're seeing now.

I think there's there's a lot of reporting that indicates that the communities that will be hardest takes.

And by the ending of these health care subsidies are, in fact, Republican strongholds.

And so I think they're the Democrats are really time to leverage that information to solidify their position and and come at from a position of strength that they are doing this for working families.

They're doing this.

For Americans as a whole and not just their constituents.

I you know, I think the public opinion is it's a little bit on their side by you know, I think as more Republicans start to break rank, seems solidify their position or I do think and you know, along with many other increase costs if SNAP payments do not family C really big increases in their health care that this does kind of support Democrat position.

But again, policy doesn't always translate into party support.

So said they'd gains may be impartial in the next set of polls.

We see.

>> President Trump content.

Sure.

Go ahead, You know proper context as >> The >> cuts in Medicaid which really, really important road as there was pills be in danger of yes, the Medicaid cuts, in fact, are implemented that were passed in one big, beautiful bill.

They were backed Clinton Republicans said that they would until after the 25 signatures.

And so the other thing that's happening here is that the Democrats by putting the focus on the expiration of the Obamacare subsidies are also helping make the point that this is a party that is consistently again providing health care for all Americans and in particular for poor Americans All right and making sure that that doesn't come as a surprise to people come 2026.

>> President Trump has spent much of the last few weeks overseas.

He's been working on foreign policy.

Here's House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump's commitment to reopening the government.

>> Listen, we've said to Republicans get to the negotiating table.

We want to find a bipartisan path forward.

We want to reopen the government.

standing by hardworking federal employees, but we need a partner in that effort.

But we don't have a partner literally.

Donald Trump over the last 29 days.

Has spent more time talking to Hamas.

And to the Chinese Communist Party.

to Democrats on Capitol Hill who represent half the country.

>> They're also far fewer workers on furlough this time.

This shutdown compared to the 2019 shutdown.

Tabitha few seconds left is reopening the government high on the president's priority list.

>> He seems to be using this as a way to punish Democrats for I think when he talks about it, he talks that he's going to fire workers for to these Democrats want to focus on.

He talks about kind of icing them.

So the language that we have seen does not seem like he cares about it other than pushing Democrats to to do what he wants and to meet Republican demands.

>> Okay.

That's what we have to leave obviously keeping an eye on this until it's over top of the Bonia and John Mark Hansen, thanks to both for joining us.

Thank Up next, a more detailed analysis of the potential into health care subsidies.

People who depend on the Affordable Care Act for health insurance coverage may be in for some sticker shock, expanded subsidies that helped enroll leaves pay for the insurance are set to expire at the end of the year, 50 million Americans are insured through ACA plans, including more than half a million Illinois residents who are likely to see nearly 80% increase in their monthly premiums and some may lose coverage completely.

Joining us now are and Gillespie director of the Illinois Department of Insurance and Morgan Winters.

Director of Get Covered Illinois, the official health insurance marketplace for Illinois residents.

Welcome back.

Thanks again for talking to us about this.

And let's be let's start with the government shutdown.

Biggest reason for his due to the expansion of the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act that Democrats are holding out for up 550,000 Illinois residents have Affordable Care Act Exchange plans, which is over 90 over 91% of them benefit from these expanded subsidies and what's at risk if the subsidies expire.

>> Well, we're gonna see significant increases in premiums and they're going to hit her dust in our southern rural part of the state.

Some folks down there are going to see premiums go from 400 a month to over 1000 a month.

And we're going to see some individuals, I think roughly 30,000 the kind of losing coverage completely because they qualified under the extended tax credit and they're cutting part off completely.

>> Morgan get covered.

Illinois is the state run marketplace for the Affordable Care Act.

Its goal is to be inaccessible platform for residents.

What people need to know for the upcoming open enrollment period.

>> Open enrollment starts on November.

First at the time where all state residents and come to the marketplace and compare plans that are available to them.

Take advantage of that.

The subsidies, the premium tax credits and cost sharing reductions that they may qualify and get help picking a plan.

And that is particularly important this year when so much is changing what we are as we really are one-stop shop for folks understand their options and pick a plan that that works for them.

When costs are going up, it's particularly important to compare the available options and make sure you're making a good choice for you and your family.

>> And how's the government shutdown affecting ACA enrollment?

>> Well, we expect that their the shutdown itself isn't because the beauty of being a state-based marketplace that we converted to this year is that we're not tied into the federal operational aspects of it.

So it allows us to continue to operate.

It allows us to things like have special enrollment periods for women who are pregnant, for example, find out they're pregnant during the benefit year.

They're going to be able to enroll in coverage of that waiting until the next open enrollment period.

We're going to have provisions the income tax returns this year.

They're going allow people to check a box to get access to insurance coverage, to indicate their interest in it.

These are things that we wouldn't able to do on the federal platform and that might be impacted by the shutdown.

But because the Governor Pritzker chose to stay patient marketplace this year, we're going to be able to provide the services.

>> So okay, as you mentioned and several counties across Illinois are going to experience significant increases in their monthly premiums, rural communities in Illinois seem to be taking the biggest hit with monthly costs, skyrocketing for Effingham County at 456%, which means $1209 $1200 monthly payment per household Jackson County seeing a 274% increase.

That means a $458 monthly payment.

And of course, it is worth noting that the most populous counties in Illinois, so Cook County will be seeing a 95% increase 83% and will county.

That just means a few.

Obviously you can see on the screen the impact on the collar counties as well.

why?

>> For those downstate counties, those rural counties was such a massive increase for them.

>> There is a combination of things happening in southern Illinois and a lot of rural communities across the country.

Some of that has to do with provider rates and cuts to Medicaid are making that more expensive for states to administer.

And so that's going to drive up costs for everybody on.

There's also less care to be had in rural communities as more concentration and in metro areas, which brings down the cost for metro areas relative to 2 to rural areas.

There's also income differences that play into the amount of subsidies that are available to folks and those income differences between rural communities and and and metro communities play a factor into what folks qualify for.

>> And I imagine that, for example, folks in Effingham County and even folks in Cook County, right?

And 95% increase.

This means some people are probably just not going to be able to pay it.

But does that mean if they lose that insurance?

>> Well, that's what we're very concerned about.

We don't want people to walk away because the risk of going without insurance is, you know, is great.

You could you never know when something's going to happen.

We're going to get sick.

You might have an accident.

We're going need some coverage to help you get through very expensive medical procedures.

So we're strongly encouraging people don't give up.

When you see the premium increase.

We've got over 1500 licensed brokers available.

We've got have a gator programs across the state.

These are trained professionals who are going to help you find a plan that works for you out of the 1100 plans.

They're being offered on the exchange.

So there's probably a plan that is going to work for you for your health care needs and for your budget.

We want to be there to help.

We encourage you reach out.

>> Also and tell me a little bit about how this impacts people who are not on an ACA plan, people who may have insurance as an employee benefit.

>> Yeah.

important thing to remember is it's more than just the tax credits.

It's the impact of several things in the Trump administration and the nature won.

The Medicaid cuts are going to result in hospitals and providers losing significant revenue streams and the banks that finance them know the revenue being cut.

So they're going to be facing increasing financial pressures, which is going be place they can recover.

That is in the commercial market.

So they will be trying to reduce the rates and a commercial setting, which will increase prices for employer-based plans as well.

The tariffs are having big impacts on pharmaceuticals across the country across the country we're seeing here are hers and commercial as well as ACA raising rates by 3, 4%, solely because of the pharmaceutical tariffs.

And then just the cost of inflation under the Trump administration is driving those costs up too.

So it's the combination package of the tax credits.

The implication, the decisions under HR one and the rule that's that's taking coverage away from certain curbs tightening up or as a result and the tariffs that are really going to have impacts on health care.

Ripple effects throughout the economy.

>> Morgan, the cost of insurance they can be obviously an obstacle.

Sometimes people choose not to get covered at all.

What resources might be available for Illinois residents to get that reliable and affordable insurance.

>> important thing to remember is that all the plans on get covered.

Illinois dot offer all 10 essential health benefits.

And so that that includes preventative care that that guards folks against major illness helps prevent folks from falling into medical debt.

So health insurance is really, really important.

And even when prices go up like they are going to do this year, it's important that folks are able to review those options as and said we have a robust network of insurance brokers that partner with get covered, Illinois.

That can help folks find the plan that's right for them.

And in some cases that will mean going from a more robust cost sharing plan like bold plan to a lower meta level.

A plan that has more affordable premiums and that's okay.

>> Sorry, to cut you off.

I was just going to say it sounds like that's information.

Folks can probably get when they head to the get Covered.

Illinois website.

You make.

That's Looking for job or to Illinois.

OK?

All right.

That's where we'll have to leave it up.

My thanks to you both for joining us.

Good luck during open enrollment.

Up next, a look at a local museum commemorating the day of the dead.

Abandoned where dose or day of the dead is a tradition that dates back centuries.

Mexican holiday honors deceased loved ones by creating altars and sharing memories this year.

The National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen has chosen a celebration of remembrance as the theme for the holiday.

We spoke with one of the curators to learn more about the exhibit.

>> The court parties remembrance and honoring.

>> These year we are incorporating five-foot and this created by community people from that eat feel And we are still talking about a little about the history behind.

They have that then is that a Muskogee high school and they created and a friend that talking about mental and mental awareness.

So they talking about this topic because it's something that they are dealing with and mostly related to social media.

elements are photographs, candles, flowers in all.

So whatever its spread of for you about that person may be some clothes, favorite books and food.

But also we have a beautiful got the ATF these created by time we discussed been yeah, morning and they created beautiful of a protest and, you know, we get them.

It's a beautiful thing.

You notice includes a in for people from the community and they are these community.

So it is a beautiful way to remember them and also to honor them.

>> And you still have time to check out the free exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican art.

It runs through December 14th.

We're back to wrap things up after this.

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