House Votes on Funding Bill, Shutdown Deal Dissent, COP30 Global Emissions

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

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The House returns to vote on a bipartisan bill that could end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and send thousands of federal workers back to their jobs. Democrats face internal backlash after several senators broke ranks to support the deal, raising questions about the impact ahead of next year's midterm elections. And COP30 opens in Brazil with a stark warning on global emissions, new data shows fossil fuels are at record highs, and the world is still far from meeting its climate goals.

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0:00.0	After staying out of Washington for more than a month, the House of Representatives will soon return to work.
0:08.3	Speaker Mike Johnson will aim to steer through a bill to reopen the government, which passed the Senate last night.
0:14.2	I'm Leila Faudill with Stevenski, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.9	Democrats highlighted the issue of health insurance subsidies but did not succeed in extending them.
0:26.7	No guarantee to actually lower costs is simply not good enough.
0:32.6	The people I work for need more than that.
0:35.4	How does a party manage its disagreements?
0:37.8	And here's a surprise.
0:39.2	The United States may be downplaying the latest global conference on climate, but around the
0:44.1	world, 90% of new power projects run on renewable energy sources.
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1:13.7	Congress is one step closer to ending the longest government shutdown in American history. The
1:19.3	Senate approved a funding bill by a 60 to 40 vote. Speaker Mike Johnson called the House of
1:24.5	Representatives back to Washington after more than a month off. The House
1:28.8	would have to pass the measure and President Trump would need to sign it. The federal government
1:33.0	could open within days, although a debate over health insurance subsidies remains unresolved.
1:38.8	NPR congressional reporter Sam Greenglass is here. Sam, good morning. Hey, Steve. Okay, so what exactly
1:43.8	did the Senate pass?
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