BREAKING: Major Banks Join Union to End Shutdown
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Jay Sekulow
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Just a day after the largest government-employee union called on the Democrat leaders in Congress to end the government shutdown, banks and credit unions are applying the same pressure. The Sekulow team discusses the economic fallout of the government shutdown, the ongoing fight between the Democrat and Republican leaders in Congress (e.g., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson), how the Trump Administration is handling the shutdown, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We got breaking news. |
| 0:01.8 | Another Domino Falls as the major banks pressure the Democrats to end the shutdown. |
| 0:08.1 | Keeping you informed and engaged. |
| 0:10.6 | Now more than ever. |
| 0:12.3 | This is Sekulo. |
| 0:15.0 | We want to hear from you. |
| 0:17.2 | Share and post your comments. |
| 0:18.7 | Recall 1-800-684-3-110. |
| 0:24.7 | And now your host, Logan Secular. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to Seculo. |
| 0:28.8 | Once again, we're talking to the government shutdown as because the pressure points are on again. |
| 0:33.4 | Yesterday, we talked about the pressures from the union, and today the pressure is coming from the banks. That's right. You may have logged in even to your bank account. We actually had someone called in yesterday, said they were having problems with that. You logged in and you see a, hey, are you affected by the government shutdown? We're here to help. You know, the government may not help you with the big banks will, where they're saying, hey, we can only do that for so long. So you know what? |
| 0:54.9 | It's time to end this shutdown. We're happy to help the American people when you won't. However, eventually that time will run out, Will, and that is what they're saying. And of course, the pressure's on. And now you're starting to have a little bit more closed door meetings. things are starting to happen in the democratic world saying, hey, how do we actually draw this to an end? |
| 1:13.4 | Because if we lose the unions |
| 1:15.2 | and then we lose the banks, it's going to get tough and tough. That's right. So the American Bankers Association, |
| 1:21.7 | which is kind of the lobby association for the banking industry. They both have big banks and small banks, but they cover |
| 1:29.7 | about 95% of all banks in the U.S. are members of this association. And they are putting out a |
| 1:38.1 | statement now today that echoes very much what we saw from the federal workers employee union yesterday, which calls for |
| 1:46.9 | a clean, continuing resolution and to resolve their policy differences when the government |
| 1:53.4 | is open and functioning. So now you're starting to see pressure from two powerful groups, |
| 1:59.0 | both the federal employees union that we |
| 2:02.2 | talked about yesterday and now the banking industry. Because when you also start to think about |
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