Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History Finally Ends

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- On Monday night, eight Senators who caucus with Democrats—Angus King, Tim Kaine, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, and Catherine Cortez Masto—joined Republicans to pass a spending package to end the government shutdown. The final vote in the Senate was 60-40. On Wednesday night, The House of Representatives passed the bill 222 to 209—with 6 Democrats joining Republicans. Shortly after, President Trump signed the bill ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. 6:15pm- While speaking with reporters, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that he will put a bill that would require the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files to a floor vote next week. 6:30pm- Does Rich still need a Bret Baier hug? We debut Newman Price’s new AI-generated music video. 6:40pm- Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac says he may not do another Disney movie—because he thinks they’re succumbing to fascism!

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0:16.1	The crazy thing about this entire shutdown is that the Democrats are even acknowledging they got
0:21.8	nothing out of this and they look weak and they look stupid and everything like that. Yeah, but
0:27.1	like I said, they won Virginia, they won Jersey, they won basically everything, and the
0:33.5	government shutdown is the reason why, because they, people, we underestimated just
0:37.9	exactly how much people were blaming Democrats, or blaming Republicans and blaming President
0:42.1	Trump.
0:43.1	And, you know, I was talking to somebody today.
0:46.6	Remember I mentioned that New Jersey, the Gateway Tunnel Project, which we were not
0:52.0	talking about down here.
0:53.9	And I've long said this about New Jersey, much like Pennsylvania.
0:58.6	I mean, one of my favorite political axioms from James Carville, when he said Pennsylvania
1:07.2	is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and Alabama in between.
1:10.3	And he wasn't, I mean maybe he was
1:12.9	probably putting down everybody in that part of the state because that's what Democrats think but
1:16.5	he meant terms of it being a sea of red and obviously we've seen that change around the counties
1:23.8	of Philadelphia to a degree but it's really almost two different states in the sense
1:30.8	that if you were to take those two cities and then leave the rest of Pennsylvania, and we've
1:35.4	made a lot of inroads in the Collar counties, and obviously President Trump won those counties
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