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‘Nuclear’ Shutdown Option, ISIS-inspired Plot Foiled, Covid-19 Autism Link and more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to take an unprecedented step to end the government shutdown. The FBI says it’s stopped a potential terrorist attack in Michigan. There’s been deadly torrential rainfall in NYC. Virginia Guiffre’s family have responded to the now-former Prince Andrew losing his royal titles. Plus, a study finds a link between Covid-19 in pregnancy and autism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey from CNN. I'm Josh and Shana with the five things you need to know for Friday, October 31st.

0:38.2

Millions of Americans are on the verge of losing access to a crucial food assistance program,

0:43.8

as money for SNAP benefits runs out tomorrow because of the government shutdown.

0:48.5

President Donald Trump has come up with what he calls the nuclear option,

0:52.9

scrap the Senate filibuster, eliminating the 60-vote

0:56.2

threshold needed for passing legislation, which would mean only a simple majority would

1:01.1

be needed to pass the funding bill. His post on Truth Social late last night has set Republicans

1:06.6

scrambling, many of whom have publicly opposed this idea. Just take a listen to what Senate

1:12.1

Majority Leader John Thune said about it a few weeks ago.

1:15.4

Supermajority requirement is something that makes the Senate the Senate. And honestly,

1:22.1

if we had done that, there's a whole lot of bad things that could have been done by the other

1:28.5

side.

1:29.5

Since one party rarely wins more than 60 seats, people have argued that the filibuster encourages

1:35.0

compromise and makes it more difficult to carry out massive partisan reforms.

1:40.9

Now to Michigan, where the FBI says it's thwarted a potential terrorist attack.

1:46.2

In a post on X, FBI director Cash Patel said the suspects were allegedly plotting a, quote,

1:51.7

violent attack over Halloween weekend.

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