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PBS News Hour - Segments

Breaking down the deal to reopen the government and what comes next

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The longest-ever government shutdown is on the verge of ending, but not for at least one more day. While a deal to reopen passed the Senate on Monday night, there are still plenty of questions about what comes next. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Welcome to the News Hour. The longest ever U.S. government shutdown is on the verge of ending, but not for at least one more day.

0:07.9

And while a deal to reopen the government passed the Senate last night, there are still plenty of questions about what comes next.

0:14.9

Let's turn now to congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin. All right, Lisa Dee, what is the latest?

0:20.0

Okay, as we speak, members of the House of Representatives are making their way by plane, car, one by motorcycle,

0:25.6

because they expect to vote on this deal tomorrow.

0:28.6

And part of that, there will be one new member in the House of Representatives.

0:32.6

That is Adelita Grohalva. She is the elected representative from Arizona who has not been sworn in.

0:39.0

Speaker Johnson has refused to swear her in the Democrat over the shutdown. That's a bigger story,

0:44.1

but it will affect the voting tomorrow. Now the House, let's look at exactly what the situation is.

0:50.6

219 Republicans to 214 Democrats is what will be in place.

0:55.3

Republicans, therefore, can just spare two votes in order to get this shutdown bill through without help.

1:00.9

Democratic leaders don't want to give them that help.

1:03.2

They are telling Democrats to vote no.

1:05.3

So this will be close.

1:07.5

A reminder, the House tomorrow will be the first time it has met in 53 days. That is almost

1:13.5

a modern record. At the same time, the country is still feeling this shutdown. Today, for example,

1:18.7

we know there are some 1,200 flights canceled, thousands more were delayed. Air traffic controllers

1:24.0

today missing their second paycheck, full paycheck. Overall, Jeff, three million paychecks have gone missing during this shutdown.

1:32.0

It has been unprecedented, not just in length, but also breadth.

1:34.6

And we've just learned the Supreme Court has extended the judge's order allowing the Trump

1:39.2

administration not to fully fund those SNAP benefits, those food stamp benefits.

1:43.4

So you've read through this bill, the entirety of it.

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