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Friday, October 3rd, 2025. I'm Evan Brown. Is it the Schumer shutdown? More and more Democrats are

thinking, yeah, it feels that way. What I think that we can now all say out loud that some people whispered from time to time

and got a slap on the rest for is that Chuck Schumer was never that great.

This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition.

Shutting down the U.S. government sounds like a big deal, and it is to some degree. Federal

workers get furloughed, meaning they're told to stay home and not be paid. Military members also

don't get paid, but they still must work. House and Senate members still get paid, and they're

supposed to be hammering out a deal to make appropriations and restart

the wheels of Washington. So how did it get to this point again? Well, there's the perennial problem

of not passing budgets on time and running out of money and then there's a political problem.

When you need some help from the opposition party to pass something, in this case the Democrats,

sometimes you need to give into demands.

Democrats want to fund certain things Republicans don't.

Republicans passed a bill in the House extending the existing spending levels under President Biden's last allocations bill,

but now Senate Democrats won't go along. It can be a test of party

political leadership. And while in the past we've seen Democratic Congresses and presidents come out

of a shutdown looking good and powerful, the politics seem to be a little flipped this time

up on Capitol Hill. So what does that mean for you in the flyover state in the suburban subdivision in the country town?

Probably not much.

Yeah, the never-ending question of what matters outside the Beltway versus inside the Beltway.

Yamisi Egba Woli has been a Senate staffer for Democrats in and out of all the

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