Government Shutdown Ends: Today’s Breaking News With Brian Karem
The Mary Trump Podcast
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A brief government shutdown ends after a closely divided House vote, leaving unresolved questions around Department of Homeland Security funding and Republican divisions. This episode examines proposed changes to federal election rules, including the SAVE Act and renewed calls to centralize voting authority, alongside concerns about foreign investment tied to the Trump family. We also look at international investigations involving Elon Musk’s social media platform, ongoing congressional scrutiny related to Jeffrey Epstein, and the broader legal and constitutional implications unfolding in the U.S. and abroad.
Guest host Brian Karem
for Mary Trump Live Tuesday February 3rd, 2026
Brian J. Karem is an award-winning journalist, author, speaker and recognized defender of the First Amendment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Mary Trump Live. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm not Mary. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Brian Keram sitting in for Mary today. |
| 0:14.2 | And thanks for allowing me into your living rooms, bedrooms, or wherever you are watching this wonderful broadcast. This is |
| 0:21.8 | Mary Trump Live. Well, gee, Donald Trump's latest government shutdown is history, folks. Sure, |
| 0:30.5 | it was brief, but Trump remains a historic president. No one has ever had as many government |
| 0:37.2 | shutdowns as Donald Trump. |
| 0:40.2 | Meanwhile, Donnie is making money off the president like you wouldn't believe. |
| 0:44.8 | No one believes it. |
| 0:46.2 | But it's true. |
| 0:46.9 | He made reportedly more than $2 billion already off the presidency in his first year. |
| 0:53.7 | Think about that. |
| 0:54.9 | There's also talk of nationalizing elections limiting liberties more out of the Epstein files, |
| 0:59.9 | less out of Trump. |
| 1:00.8 | Trump believes in the Constitution. |
| 1:02.7 | However, and look hell, it's just Tuesday. |
| 1:06.4 | Oh, well, let's dive in. |
| 1:07.7 | Okay. well. Let's dive in. |
| 1:30.5 | House of Representatives passed a large funding package this afternoon to end the brief government shutdown that began over the weekend. The vote was 217 to 214. Trump signed it this |
| 1:37.2 | afternoon in a meeting flanked by his favorite fans and fawning celebrities who fawned wildly |
| 1:42.8 | over his actions. |
| 1:44.4 | I'm telling you it looked like something out of freaks. |
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