Senate Passes Bill to End Shutdown, HBCU Reopens After 10 Years, Texas A&M Ideology Clash
#RolandMartinUnfiltered
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
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11.11.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Senate Passes Bill to End Shutdown, HBCU Reopens After 10 Years, Texas A&M Ideology Clash
In a 60-40 vote, the Senate passed the funding bill that would end the longest government shutdown in history. The bill heads to the House for a final vote.
A Utah judge denied the GOP-passed congressional map, which created two competitive districts that still favored Republicans.
The return of students to North Carolina's Barber-Scotia College marks a significant milestone for the HBCU. The president will be here to discuss how the school went from disrepair and loss of accreditation to reopening its campus and welcoming back students for the first time in nearly a decade.
The Texas A&M Board of Regents will vote on whether to limit the teachings of 'race or gender ideology' in university classrooms.
Alabama Congressman Shomari Figures introduced legislation to honor the first Black aviators in U.S. military history by renaming a post office after the Tuskegee Airmen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:16.2 | Good evening, everyone. |
| 0:18.2 | Let me first welcome House Republicans back to the Congress after their seven-week taxpayer-funded vacation. |
| 0:28.2 | These people have been missing in action, absent without official leave, running scared, but they can no longer hide. The Rules Committee is going to meet shortly, |
| 0:42.4 | and then tomorrow there will be votes on the House floor. And Democrats will continue to press |
| 0:50.9 | the case, to say to our Republican colleagues, you have another opportunity to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, |
| 1:00.0 | and make sure that tens of millions of Americans all across the country |
| 1:06.0 | and communities that Republicans represent, along with us as. Tens of millions of Americans, rural America, |
| 1:16.0 | working class America, urban America, small town America, the heartland of America, and in black |
| 1:21.9 | and brown communities all across America, people at risk of experiencing dramatically increased premiums, co-pays, and |
| 1:30.2 | deductibles because of the Republican refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. |
| 1:38.4 | Before the Rules Committee this evening, House Democrats, led by myself and Whip Catherine Clark, will give the Republicans |
| 1:48.4 | another opportunity to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits by introducing an amendment |
| 1:54.2 | that will extend these tax credits for a three-year period of time. |
| 2:03.7 | Same period of time that these tax credits for a three-year period of time. Same period of time that these tax credits were extended back in 2022. Republicans have created a health care crisis all across America. |
| 2:14.4 | Largest cut to Medicaid in American history. Hospitals, nursing homes, and community-based health centers closing all throughout the country |
| 2:24.4 | because of what Republicans did in their one big ugly bill. |
| 2:29.8 | Medicare still at risk of the largest cut it may confront in American history unless Congress |
| 2:36.6 | acts by the end of this year. And of course, because of the Republican refusal to extend the |
| 2:43.4 | Affordable Care Act tax credits in the midst of a cost of living crisis that already exists, |
| 2:49.2 | that they fail to address health care for people all |
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