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Pentagon review reportedly confirms Aukus submarines pact is safe

The Aukus submarine deal will proceed as planned after reportedly surviving the Pentagon’s review of the security pact.

The Japan-based Nikkei Asia reported the Trump administration would retain the original timeline for the $368bn program, which includes the US selling three Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia from 2032.

A US Department of Defense official would not confirm the report when contacted by Guardian Australia.

“The Aukus initiative is still under review. We have no further Aukus updates to announce at this time,” the official said.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, acknowledged the review was still under way but was confident Aukus had the support of the US and the UK – the third partner in the pact.

“We know that Aukus is in the interests of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States,” Albanese said from Abu Dhabi, the last stop in an overseas trip that has included visits to the two Aukus allies.

“It is about a partnership which is in the interest of all three nations which will make peace and security in our region so much stronger.”

US deports planeload of Iranians after deal with Tehran, New York Times says

The Trump administration is deporting a planeload of about 100 Iranians back to Iran from the United States, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and a US official with knowledge of the plans.

Iranian officials said that a US-chartered flight, took off from Louisiana on Monday night and was scheduled to arrive in Iran by way of Qatar sometime on Tuesday, the report added.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

Opening summary

Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.

We start with the news that a high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and top congressional Democrats on Monday resulted in no apparent breakthrough in negotiations to keep the government open, with JD Vance declaring afterwards: “I think we are headed into a shutdown.”

Democrats, who are refusing to support the GOP’s legislation to continue funding beyond Tuesday unless it includes several healthcare provisions, struck a more optimistic tone after the Oval Office encounter, which also included the Republican leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives.

The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said he had outlined his concerns about the state of healthcare in the country to Trump, and said: “He seemed to, for the first time, understand the magnitude of this crisis.

“We hope he’ll talk to the Republican leaders and tell them: we need bipartisan input on healthcare, on decisions into their bill. Their bill does not have these – they never talked to us.”

But there was little sign that Republicans had shifted from their demands that Senate Democrats vote for their bill that would keep the government open until 21 November, so that long-term funding talks may continue. The GOP passed that bill through the House on a near party-line vote earlier this month, but it needs at least some Democratic support to advance in the Senate.

“This is purely and simply hostage-taking on behalf of the Democrats,” said the Senate majority leader John Thune. Referring to the Republican funding proposal, Thune said: “We could pick it up and pass it tonight, and pass it tomorrow before the government shuts down.”

Vance sought to pin the blame for any shutdown on the Democrats, saying: “I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing. I hope they change their mind, but we’re gonna see.”

Trump has not yet commented publicly on the meeting, which was not opened to reporters. In an interview earlier in the day with CBS News, the president said “I just don’t know how we are going to solve this issue,” and alleged the Democrats “are not interested in waste, fraud and abuse”.

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In other developments:

• Donald Trump announced his proposed 20-point peace plan for Gaza, and held a public appearance with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who said he approved the plan. Neither leader took questions on the plan from journalists.

• Hamas negotiators reportedly received a copy of the plan today, but have not yet responded.

• The plan calls for a transitional government of Gaza that would involve international figures, including Trump and the former UK prime minister Tony Blair, whose inclusion sparked some immediate pushback, given his historic role in supporting the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and the history of British colonization in the region.

• The pending US government shutdown may be more severe for Americans than in the past, as the Trump administration is threatening to permanently fire federal employees during the shutdown, rather than simply furlough them temporarily.

• Airlines and other aviation groups warned that the federal government shutdown could immediately affect airline passengers, as well as slow the pipeline of air-traffic-controllers currently in training to fill a huge gap in these crucial jobs.

• YouTube, following the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter/X, is caving to a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump in response to the platforms deactivating his profiles after the 6 January insurrection in Washington. YouTube will pay $24.5m to settle the lawsuit: more than $20m of that is reportedly expected to fund the construction of a Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom at the White House.

• The Trump administration announced it was filing a lawsuit against Minnesota for the state’s immigration sanctuary policies, following similar lawsuits against Los Angeles and New York.