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🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, President Trump again pushes to change Senate rules in order to end the 33-day government shutdown as hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers struggle to make ends meet. |
| 0:18.1 | Then a new documentary follows the journey of decorated Navy seals treated |
| 0:22.5 | with psychedelics to combat wartime trauma. And an unseen masterpiece by French impressionist |
| 0:29.2 | Pierre Auguste Renoir is rediscovered and will go on the auction block. |
| 0:36.2 | We were particularly surprised by how fresh the painting was, which has not been recanvassed, retouched, retouched, or re-varnished. |
| 0:42.3 | So it is really an exceptional condition. The last person to have touched it was probably Renoir himself. Good evening. I'm John Yang. |
| 1:01.8 | Tonight, day 33 of the government shutdown is drawing to a close with no end in sight. |
| 1:07.3 | And Americans are beginning to feel the effects. |
| 1:09.9 | Payments for federal food programs are |
| 1:12.0 | in doubt despite court orders. Delays are likely for federal payments to help low-income Americans |
| 1:17.3 | heat and cool their homes. And the air traffic control system is beginning to show signs of strain |
| 1:22.5 | as the holiday travel season approaches. Meanwhile, this weekend, the approximately 650,000 furloughed federal |
| 1:29.6 | workers are getting fresh notices telling them to stay home without working and without pay. |
| 1:35.4 | Many are beginning to feel the pinch. |
| 1:37.9 | This is my first time visiting a food bank in my entire life. I've never had the need to do so in the past, but times change. |
| 1:47.0 | Anthony's fate is just one of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees nationwide |
| 1:52.0 | who've been furloughed for more than four weeks. In Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, federal |
| 1:59.0 | workers both furloughed and fired, are lining up at food banks for assistance. |
| 2:03.6 | I have a master's degree. I have 25 years of experience in my own job. I didn't see this ever coming. It never should have. |
| 2:11.6 | Amy Uccello was one of tens of thousands of USAID workers fired earlier this year when the administration |
| 2:19.8 | eliminated the agency. |
| 2:21.1 | It's finding ways to make ends meet. |
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