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The rest are holding firm, so far, as the party demands concessions in the form of health care funding in order to win their votes.Federal government shutdown set to stretch into next week02:19With no serious discussions occurring between Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the spotlight turns to rank-and-file senators who could be key to finding a way to break the impasse.The House, meanwhile, has canceled its session for next week, keeping the focus on the Senate.Here are three key Democratic senators to watch.We’d like to hear from you about how you’re experiencing the government shutdown, whether you’re a federal employee who can’t work right now or someone who is feeling the effects of shuttered services in your everyday life. Please contact us at tips@nbcuni.com or reach out to us here.Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.Shaheen is in a unique position for a variety of reasons. She’s a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, which is tasked with writing government funding bills, and she loathes shutdowns. Shaheen was just one of two Democratic caucus members (along with Sen. Angus King, I-Maine) who voted for the last Republican bill to avoid a government shutdown, which passed in March.She’s also the lead author of the Democratic bill to make permanent the Obamacare subsidies that will expire at the end of this year, the party’s central demand in the current standoff. And she’s retiring at the end of this term, freeing her from political pressure.“There are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle who think we need to address this,” Shaheen said, of the Obamacare subsidies, citing recent polls that show substantial support for extending them to avoid premium hikes. “I think it’s important, and it’s a message to not only our Republican colleagues, but to the White House.”A source who has spoken to Shaheen said she recognizes the headwinds Democrats face as the minority party and has spoken to colleagues in search of the best possible outcomes on a health care solution. The source spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations among senators. Shaheen is seen by Republicans as someone they can deal with; she’s nobody’s idea of a partisan flamethrower. If there’s a deal to break the logjam, it probably runs through her.Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga.Ossoff is the only Democrat running for re-election next year in a state won by President Donald Trump in 2024. The first-term Georgia senator has held his cards close to the vest during the shutdown and has been strategic in his occasional breaks with his party during his Senate career. But in each of the four recent votes on bills to fund the government, he has supported the Democratic plan — which extends Obamacare funding and undoes Medicaid cuts — and opposed the Republican one.Ossoff said his vote is “to keep the government open and to prevent massive increases to Georgians’ health insurance premiums next year.”He faulted Trump for telling Republicans not to negotiate with Democrats, while urging the GOP to “work with us to find a bipartisan path forward and to prevent a massive increase in health insurance premiums for Georgia families.”For now, Trump and Republicans are shouldering more of the blame for the shutdown than Democrats, according to four recent polls. That gives Ossoff some breathing room. But he won’t want to alienate swing voters who may prove crucial to his quest for a second term in an ultra-competitive state.If the public turns on Democrats in the shutdown fight, Ossoff will face immense pressure to flip. 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The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.Britain is America’s most important intelligence partner in a spying alliance of five English-speaking democracies known as “Five Eyes,” which also includes Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Britain, France and the Netherlands have territories in the Caribbean and have long worked with the United States and other regional governments to try to stem narcotics trafficking. In the past decade, cocaine smuggling to Europe from South America via the Caribbean has spiked, according to government reports and experts.Former military lawyers, legal experts and Democrats in Congress say the strikes violate international and U.S. laws that prohibit using military force to target civilians. They argue that drug gangs do not meet the legal standard of an armed group at war with the United States. The subject of America’s military attacks on alleged drug smuggling boats came up during a meeting in Canada of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies, Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign affairs chief, told NBC News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday denied that Britain had stopped sharing intelligence. He also said his counterparts did not raise the U.S. military campaign in Latin America and intelligence support for the operation during the discussions. “Not with me — no one raised it,” Rubio told reporters after the meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, near the U.S. border.“It didn’t come up once,” Rubio said. He added: “Again, nothing has changed or happened that is impeded in any way our ability to do what we’re doing, nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we’re doing — in any realm. And that includes military.”Asked about European concerns as to whether the U.S. was adhering to international law with its boat strikes, Rubio said it was up to the United States to safeguard its security.“I don’t think that the European Union gets to determine what international law is. What they certainly don’t get to determine is how the United States defends its national security,” Rubio said. “The United States is under attack from organized criminal, narco-terrorists in our hemisphere, and the president is responding in the defense of our country.”Asked whether the Canadian government is withholding intelligence from Washington on narcotics trafficking in Latin America, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand, told reporters Wednesday: “The U.S. has made it clear it is using its own intelligence. We have no involvement in the operations you were referring to.”Canada’s intelligence service did not immediately respond to a request for comment. NATO allies have said little publicly about President Donald Trump’s military campaign in the Caribbean and the Pacific, which marks the first time an American commander-in-chief has treated drug smugglers as a military adversary at “war” with the United States.On the legality of the strikes, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters Tuesday: “Decisions on this are a matter for the U.S. Issues around whether or not anything is against international law is a matter for a competent international court, not for governments to determine.”France’s foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, expressed concern on Tuesday about the legal foundation for the U.S. military strikes. “We have followed with concern the strikes carried out by the United States in international waters, in disregard of international law and the law of the sea,” Barrot told the French newspaper La Journal du Dimanche. 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The administration has labeled multiple cartels from Venezuela, Mexico and elsewhere as foreign terrorist organizations.The strikes, which began in early September, have killed at least 75 people, according to numbers announced by the Pentagon.Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday ordered his country’s security forces to stop sharing intelligence with Washington until the Trump administration halted the strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.In a post on X, Petro wrote that Colombia’s military must immediately end “communications and other agreements with U.S. security agencies.” The Trump administration has portrayed Petro as failing to crack down on narco-traffickers and criticized his decision not to extradite Colombian rebel leaders involved in the drug trade to the United States.Dan De LuceDan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. Courtney KubeCourtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.Andrea MitchellAndrea Mitchell is chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News.

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