Shutdown for What?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The government shutdown appears to be reaching its end, and that's because eight non-Democratic senators have effectively agreed to the deal that Republicans put on the table before the shutdown began. What went on here? And why is Trump now offering 2 grand to taxpayers as a "tariff bonus"? And, most deliciously, we explore the collapse of the BBC senior leadership after an internal expose of their crimes against Trump, trans ideology, and Israel. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink champagne, some die of thirst, the way of knowing which way it's going,
0:19.0	hope for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.5	Oh, for the best.
0:24.6	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.
0:27.4	Today is Monday, November 10th, 2025.
0:29.9	I am John Podhor.
0:30.7	It's the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.1	With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:35.5	Hi, Abe.
0:36.2	Hi, John.
0:37.2	And Washington Free Beacon editor, Eleana Johnson. Hi, Eliana. Hi, Leanna. me as always executive editor abe greenwald hi abe hi john and washington free beacon editor eliana johnson
0:40.1	hi eliana hi john there's too much to talk about so we'll just uh end the show here and you can
0:47.6	just spend the day reading the newspaper and trying to catch up uh so since there's 10 different things to talk about,
0:55.6	I'll just pick one and then we'll go from there.
0:58.2	Okay, so the government shutdown appears to be over.
1:03.0	Seven senators, six Democrats and Independent
1:07.4	or something like that have agreed to the terms of the Republican
1:13.1	bill to end the shutdown in the Senate, thus leading to 60 votes, leading to the possibility
1:20.9	of a cloture vote, which ends debate, which means that then the Senate can pass the bill with
1:24.9	60 votes, and they can go into conference with the
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