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Anderson Cooper 360

As Shutdown Nears End, Trump Dismisses Affordability Concerns

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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With House lawmakers taking their first steps tonight to reopen the government, Americans brace for lingering pain from the shutdown as President Trump tries to say the pain's not real. Plus, a CNN exclusive on how the administration's campaign against alleged drug boats is costing the United States access to potentially vital intelligence from one of the country's oldest and closest ally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360 with House lawmaker first steps right now to reopen the government

0:05.6

Americans' brace for lingering pain from the shutdown, and the President tries to say the

0:09.9

pain's not real. Also tonight I've seen an exclusive on how the administration's campaign

0:14.5

against those alleged drug boats is costing the country access to potentially vital

0:19.1

intelligence from America's oldest and closest allies.

0:22.6

And later only on 360, how authorities say two young men in a leafy suburb allegedly turned into wannabe jihadis, ready to kill for ISIS.

0:31.6

Good evening, thanks for joining us. Right now, a House committee is getting ready to take the first key vote on the bill to end the government shutdown. By this time, tomorrow night, it could be on its way

0:41.3

to the President's desk. Could be because a lot depends on enough House members returning

0:45.9

from their districts by then to pass it. And that depends on whether they can catch a flight

0:50.5

back to Washington with airlines still trimming schedules and air traffic

0:54.3

controllers who haven't been paid in weeks still in short supply.

0:58.3

Even if those lawmakers can get flights, there's no guarantee that air travel will go back

1:02.2

to normal right away or anytime soon.

1:05.6

Even if we see the government reopen this week, could we see delays for Thanksgiving travel?

1:10.3

So it depends on are we going to have

1:12.6

air traffic controllers come in to work? Well, that's the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy today.

1:17.8

Here's the president on Fox last night promising the air traffic controllers who did stay on the job

1:22.5

through the shutdown money, which he admits he doesn't have. I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus. Where's that money coming from? I don't know. I'll get it from someplace. I'll get it from, I always get the money from someplace regardless. It doesn't matter. Well, it may matter to the men and women with bills to pay and families to support who showed up to do very difficult and demanding jobs and got paid nothing for it for weeks.

1:45.0

They've already been hurt by the shutdown, so of people who rely on food assistance.

1:49.0

The president went so far as to ask the Supreme Court to let them go hungry.

1:53.0

So was anyone who depends on government services beyond just air traffic control that were degraded or unavailable.

1:59.0

But that pledge you heard the President makes pales next

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