The Spoon: Fed workers on shutdown watch

💳 Congress voted down a spending bill last night and has until 12:01 am tomorrow to approve one and avoid a government shutdown. (Axios)

• Nearly 17,000 federal workers in Minnesota could be furloughed or working without pay if no deal is reached. (Star Tribune)

🖊️ St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter used his line-item veto powers to restore roughly $2.3 million the city council had removed from next year's budget, including cuts to police overtime. (Kyle on X)

• The council voted to override the vetoes yesterday. The mayor argued the vote was meaningless because it came after a legal deadline. (Pioneer Press)

❄️ Snowmobile-maker Arctic Cat is shutting down manufacturing indefinitely at its St. Cloud and Thief River Falls facilities. (MPR News)

🏛️ Luigi Mangione is now facing federal murder charges in connection to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Axios)

• Mangione arrived in New York Thursday afternoon after waiving extradition and agreeing to be transferred from Pennsylvania.

😬 A student driver crashed their SUV into the Chaska License Center during their road test. No one was hurt. (Fox 9)

😢 Nanna, the blind and deaf senior dog whose owner set out to walk her across every bridge in the Twin Cities, has died. She was 18. (Announcement via X/Background via MPR News)