Shutdown Day 27: SNAP on the brink

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It’s Day 27 of the government shutdown — and there’s no end in sight. President Trump is abroad and the House has been out of session for 38 days. Anna and Jake break down the stakes as air traffic controllers brace for a missed paycheck and SNAP benefits near a cliff on Nov. 1. Plus: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries heads to Illinois to push for a mid-decade redistricting plan — and why Black lawmakers in the state are wary. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at⁠⁠⁠ ⁠punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.1	Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Monday, October 27th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.
0:43.2	Number one, the latest on the government shutdown. Number two, Jeffrey's heads to Illinois.
0:47.6	And number three, senators appeal to SCOTUS on Trump tariffs. All right, Jake, let's get into it.
0:53.0	We are on day 27 of the government
0:55.9	shutdown, and there was no resolution in sight to this crisis. The House hasn't voted since
1:01.1	September 19th. That is 38 days, Jake. The Senate, meanwhile, is spinning its wheels on nominations
1:07.0	and doomed to fail funding votes that aren't moving the needle. It's hard to understand how we are going to get out of this mess.
1:13.4	No, I don't know.
1:14.3	People ask me all the time.
1:15.4	I don't know.
1:17.3	I just don't know.
1:18.5	I would like to think that Thanksgiving, as far as it is away, is going to focus the mind.
1:25.6	But I just don't know.
1:26.5	The interesting thing, a couple interesting
1:28.7	things to be, President Trump is in Asia, second foreign trip since he's since the shutdown.
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