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Farming communities have seen export markets for many crops dissipate and federal safety net programs shrink during the president’s second term.

Canada’s statistics agency says it hasn’t received data on U.S. imports of Canadian goods for September, raising the possibility it will be unable to proceed with a release of trade figures.

Washington’s partisan impasse continues to keep the federal government in a partial shutdown as the transportation panels eye consideration of a multiyear highway measure.

“Starting now, accuracy is getting worse,” Omair Sharif, president of Inflation Insights, said in an Oct. 9 interview, just over a week into the shutdown.

The Senate on Oct. 7 confirmed Barrs to manage the nation’s trucking regulatory agency even as the federal government remained locked in a partial shutdown.

It’s the first time since a government shutdown in 2013 that the jobs report has been delayed.

Trucking regulators and officials who manage the country’s surface transportation network are operating under mostly normal conditions as the partial government shutdown continues.

But work on some renewable energy projects will halt.

The department’s plan, released Sept. 30, shows that highway and trucking agencies are among the least affected in a lapse of annual appropriations.

Under the latest plan, air traffic controller hiring and field training would also continue — a key difference from the March plan, which would have paused those activities.