Jan. 08--Last week, five Louisiana children on their way to Disney World were among seven people killed in a horrific multi-vehicle traffic accident near Gainesville, Florida.

Now, because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, the nation's top investigators can't start their work to determine what happened. Staffers for the National Transportation Safety Board, which gets involved in probing major crashes like the Florida accident, have been furloughed as part of the shutdown. It was prompted by a dispute between President Donald Trump and Congress over his request for billions of dollars to build a border wall near Mexico -- a wall candidate Trump repeatedly promised that Mexico would pay for. Security is important, but key parts of the border already have a wall.

Accident investigations work best when officials can begin their work promptly. But because of pointless political posturing, Louisiana families who have suffered terrible losses are being denied answers about why their loved ones died.

Those families, and the rest of the country, deserve a government that's open for business. What they're getting, instead, is a national disgrace.

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OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AM Best has commented that the Short Term Issuer Credit Ratings of AMB-1+ (Strongest) of Pacific Life Insurance Company’s recently amended commercial paper program remain unchanged following the announcement of an increase in its size to $2.25 billion from the previous $1 billion level, which took effect Sept. 30, 2026.

AM Best recognizes that the amended program will provide benefit to the company’s liquidity profile by matching the size of its commercial paper program to its enterprise revolving credit facility backstop and also increase the financial flexibility through diversification of funding sources, while leverage and coverage calculations remain within levels supportive of the Credit Ratings.

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