The Government Shutdown in the Shadow of the Election

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MS NOW, Ali Velshi

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🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Co-Chair of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Transition Team Lina Khan, Editor-in-Chief of Investopedia Caleb Silver, Professor of Economics & Public Policy at University of Michigan Justin Wolfers

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0:00.0	It is Sunday, November the 9th. The Senate will gavel into session in the next hour as the longest shutdown in American history drags on.
0:13.5	Right now, senators are awaiting a new version of Republicans' temporary stopgap funding bill that would run for slightly longer than the one they
0:21.6	have already voted down 14 times already. And given that the bill has no new provisions to protect
0:27.6	the Affordable Care Act subsidies as Democrats have demanded, it is as unlikely to pass as the last
0:33.7	14. So the government remains shut down and probably will, in part. Because while
0:39.3	whole agencies halt their crucial work, and Americans feel the consequences in their homes,
0:44.1	in their airports, and in the increasing strain on food banks, the Trump administration is using
0:49.0	the shutdown to bifurcate the government into two groups. The haves and the have-nots. So let's start with the have-nots.
0:55.8	According to the bipartisan policy center, at least 670,000 federal employees have been
1:01.4	furloughed, meaning they're not working, and roughly 730,000 continue to work without pay.
1:07.5	They're expected to receive back pay, but the administration has been non-committal on whether
1:12.4	furloughed employees will also receive back pay. The bipartisan policy center goes on in their
1:18.6	analysis, quote, if the shutdown continues through December 1st, roughly four and a half million
1:24.3	paychecks will be withheld from federal civilian employees, representing
1:28.3	approximately $21 billion in missing wages. On Friday, FAA mandated reductions in flights took
1:36.2	place in 40 U.S. airports. The latest tallies from Flight Aware indicate that more than 5,000
1:41.9	flights have been delayed and 1,100 canceled, amounting to
1:45.2	about a 4% reduction in flights. That number is expected to go up day by day. Yesterday, Nashville
1:51.3	International Airport grounded all planes for four hours due to staffing shortages. Newark and
1:57.4	Atlanta both saw five-hour delays. More shutdown have-nots.
2:01.7	The 42 million Americans who received funding to buy food through the Supplemental Nutrition
2:05.9	Assistance Program or SNAP.
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