The Senate votes to end the shutdown.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, the Senate voted60–40 to advance legislation to end the federal government shutdown after Republicans reached a deal with several Democratic senators. The package includes the continuing resolution passed by the House of Representatives with amendments to include three bills (known as a “minibus”) that will collectively fund the operations of Congress, the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, and programs and benefits for veterans in fiscal year 2026. As part of the deal, Congress will also fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through fiscal year 2026. However, the deal will not include an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act credits, which Democrats had been demanding as part of a deal. Instead, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) promised a vote in December on extending the credits.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place |
| 0:22.9 | you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit |
| 0:26.8 | of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about |
| 0:31.2 | the government shutdown, which now appears over, maybe, or at least headed that way. It's 10 a.m. on Monday as I record this |
| 0:42.4 | podcast. So things might change by the time this comes out. I don't think they will, but things |
| 0:47.6 | might change. So keep an eye out for that. But we're going to report on what we know right now. |
| 0:54.0 | Before we jump in, a quick heads |
| 0:55.2 | up, first of all, tomorrow, Tuesday, November 11th is Veterans Day. So we'll be off from the podcast for that. |
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| 1:44.6 | it over to John for today's main show, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:53.5 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. Hope y'all had a wonderful weekend. I got so many |
| 1:59.7 | responses to last week's question about what you've done |
| 2:02.8 | recently to improve your mental health. I'm going to try my best to go through a few of them |
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