Good Morning Acadiana! Here are your News 10’s Morning Rush headlines:

• During his address last night, president Trump blamed Democrats for the partial government shutdown that’s now in its 19th day. Democrats rebutted saying the president is holding the American people hostage.
• The government shutdown is causing Youngsville Police Chief Rickey Boudreaux’s department to pay for the disposal of hazardous chemicals, and Anglelina Leger who works for FEMA in D.C., she’s forced to stay with family and friends and not return back to D.C. until the shutdown is over and she starts getting payed again.
• The Department of Agriculture and Forestry says all farm service agency offices are closed, h2a and b programs and trade promotion services frozen.
• A new alert system is in place in Acadia parish school district. It’s to improve the communication and transportation issues with busses. It’s also to collaborate with Acadia parish school system and student transportation services.
• Governor John Bel Edwards will speak at the Louisiana rice industry annual meeting this afternoon in Jennings.
• Governor Edwards is proposing a thousand-dollar raise for teachers and 500 dollars more for support staff. he says he wants to keep educators from seeking work out of state.
• Global Energy producer British petroleum, announced plans for major expansion to their Atlantis field in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Lafayette city officials are considering on whether or not to adopt a local law or wait for state lawmakers to pass a bill that would regulate the use of pay-by-the-minute rental scooters.