The beginning of the end

The Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A 60-40 procedural vote in the Senate on Sunday night is putting the 40-day government shutdown on track to find an end date this week if all goes according to plan. While the shutdown may be coming to an end, another dramatic fracas is spinning off from it. The eight centrist Democrats who voted with Republicans, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are now at the center of intra-party ire. Playbook’s Jack Blanchard and White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns unpack what happens now, and what the deal means for both sides.

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0:00.0	Today on the Playbook podcast, the Dems have caved and it looks like the shutdown is coming to an end.
0:12.9	Another day, another foreign leader at the White House, this time a visit by a Syrian president.
0:18.3	And Donald Trump takes out another media outlet, but this time it's overseas.
0:24.7	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Monday, November 10th.
0:30.0	Dasha, it feels like we're going to get there. Wow, happy Monday, everybody. This could be it
0:35.7	after a very, very long stretch.
0:39.5	40 days and 40 nights.
0:41.2	It's a biblical shutdown.
0:42.6	It is biblical, isn't it?
0:44.6	Wow.
0:45.6	It really looks like we are now creeping towards an end.
0:48.8	As I'm sure most people listening to this podcast this morning will know, there were enough
0:53.4	Democratic senators last night who decided to pull the plug on the shutdown and they people listening to this podcast this morning will know there were enough democratic senators
0:54.4	last night who decided to pull the plug on the shutdown and they now have the numbers to get
0:59.3	a procedural deal through and it looks like a deal is going to be going to the House this week
1:04.0	to finally end the government shutdown. And Dash, the biggest, noisiest thing about all that
1:09.6	is the civil war that is breaking out in the Democratic Party right now.
1:14.3	It looks messy this morning, doesn't it?
1:16.4	It looks very, very messy because it's not like all of the Democrats came together and decided we're going to move forward in one unified way and pulled a plug on this thing.
1:25.4	It was eight.
1:26.7	Eight who decided that they were going to
1:29.2	vote with Republicans. And knowing fully well, the wrath that was coming to them from some segments of the
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