From Washington: Tensions Remain High At Shutdown Drags On

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🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tensions remain high on Capitol Hill as the government shutdown drags on. The latest point of contention is Speaker Mike Johnson's delay in swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Johnson claims the delay is due to the shutdown, but some Democrats accuse him of trying to prevent her from being a key vote on a bill related to the Epstein files. FOX Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram breaks down the back-and-forth over Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva and explains how a Supreme Court case about voters' rights could give GOP redistricting efforts a boost. Later, Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa discusses the government shutdown, the arrest of the Des Moines school superintendent by ICE, and the impact of the trade war with China on Iowa’s agriculture industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	Sunday, October 19th, 2025. I'm Ryan Schmels. Democrats are demanding a congresswoman elect be sworn in,
0:42.0	with Speaker Johnson saying that will happen as soon as the government reopens.
0:46.4	Democrats said, you need to swear her in. Mike Johnson says, well, it's a government shutdown.
0:51.3	We've only been having what we call these pro forma sessions where they gavel in and gavile out and says, you know, the house is not really open for business,
0:57.7	is what Johnson has said. And members of Congress are stressing patience as the Trump administration
1:02.7	tries to navigate a trade standoff with China. We'd love to do business with China, but we have to
1:08.8	also make sure that their unfair trade practices of the last
1:12.6	decades get called out and don't happen again. I mean, we need to check some balances, and we'd
1:18.2	love to have China buy our soybeans, but on the same breath, we want it fair and equitable.
1:22.5	This is the Fox News Rundown from Washington.
1:39.0	Democrats made their way to Speaker Johnson's office during the government shutdown,
1:43.0	demanding the Speaker swearing Congresswoman elect Adelaideh Grijalva.
1:45.0	Swear her in.'t swear her in.
1:47.3	Don't swear her in.
1:49.5	Swear her in.
1:54.4	Grahava won a special election to replace her father, and she would be the final signature needed on a discharge petition to put a bill on the House floor that would compel the
1:59.2	release of the Epstein files. Speaker Johnson
2:02.0	has dismissed the Epstein files playing a role and says he'll swear in the Congresswoman
2:06.6	elect as soon as the government is reopened. Rep. Elect Grahalva is being congratulating for
2:11.8	winning her late father's seat. We love that. We're going to administer the oath to her as soon
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