Lines drawn in courts, power strained and frayed

We sing today’s news so the facts don’t fade

Government shutdown updates: Senate again fails to pass funding bills

The government stalls — Congress can’t agree

Agencies close, aid on hold, workers in uncertainty

Air traffic controllers work without pay, delays climbing

Food assistance programs, emergency plans, under strain, timing tightening

Trump plans aid package for US soybean farmers while seeking trade deal with China

Farmers watch their fields, China cuts off trade

Soybean exports collapse, relief plans now being made

The administration readies aid to prop up rural towns

While negotiation fronts shift, pressure bearing down

When law, force, and order clash where they stand

Who shields the guard? Who draws the line in this land?

We sing the facts, unmasked and bare

Law, power, justice — who will care?

Pentagon says it is deploying California National Guard to Portland

Judge blocks Trump’s deployment of National Guard to Oregon, accuses administration of circumventing her order

In Oregon, a federal judge halted guard deployment to Portland — she said the protests didn’t justify military force

Then, when the administration tried sending troops from California and Texas, she warned it violated her earlier ruling

Her court order blocks any Guard units sent under federal control to Oregon for now

States argue federal overreach, courts push back against what feels like a legal loophole

Off Venezuela’s coast a vessel was seized at sea

Trump says U.S. forces struck to stop narcotics trafficking spree

The UN questions lethal force, due process claims arise

Another front in the administration’s wider crackdown lies

When law, force, and order clash where they stand

Who shields the guard? Who draws the line in this land?

We sing the facts, unmasked and bare

Law, power, justice — who will care?

As shutdown extends, essential services strain and fray

Without funding, sudden cuts may follow, federal staff pushed away

Talks stall, tension grows — the battlefield mixes law, lives, and state

In cities, courts, and fields, the nation watches fate

When law, force, and order clash where they stand

Who shields the guard? Who draws the line in this land?

We sing the facts, unmasked and bare

Law, power, justice — who will care?

Here’s the song of today — unfolding, unafraid

Watch what comes next — who enforces what’s made?

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Written and recorded with AI tools. Facts sourced from major publications linked above.