Stu does America.

Welcome to the program. We've got Dave Landau coming up. Oh, it's a lot of fun. But we're to start by doing the government shutdown of 2025. Yes, it's here. It's exciting. I think we're all pumped up about it.

Look, the main thing for me was able to win my investment

on the prediction markets about the shutdown because it just seemed like there was nowhere for

either one of these sides to go. Republicans didn't want to give in, obviously. Why would they?

And the Democrats have been pushing to this corner by their far left plank to make them do

this and they decided they had to go ahead with it.

Let's see where this goes.

Shutdown enters its first day with no hint either side will give.

The shutdown became all but inevitable on Tuesday night after Senate Democrats voted just hours

before a midnight deadline to block Republicans' plan to keep federal funding flowing.

In back-to-back Senate votes that reflected how acrimonious the funding dispute has become,

each party blocked the others' stopgap spending proposal just as they had earlier in the month.

And that was one of the reasons why it felt like this was definitely coming,

because even if they passed those, well, the House was going to

need to approve it unless they, when they did vote on this at one point, a very specific,

the exact same plan as the House. Well, when you try to, it would advance it and come up with a

new idea at the last minute, well, that would have to go back to the House. So what are you going to do?

55-45 vote GOP plan, which would extend funding through November 21st, fell short of the 60

needed for passage. Republicans also blocked Democrats' plan, which would extend funding through

the end of October. So, you know, only a month. And add more than a trillion in health care

spending. Obviously, not going to do that. It was 53-47.

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