Wednesday, October 29, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 08:47)
What Is Right? What Is at Stake? The Debate Over SNAP Raises Massive Questions for Conservatives
- No American Should Go to Bed Hungry by The New York Times (Josh Hawley)
The Worldwide Disappearance of the Political Middle: Global Headlines Reflect Increasing Polarization
Part III (13:29 – 19:08)
Are Young People Looking for a Political Middle? Eventually, Young People Need to Understand What’s at Stake
- Anxious and disillusioned: being young in Trump’s America by The Financial Times (Ian Hodgson)
The White House Needs a Ballroom: The Worldview Behind the Architecture and the Headlines at the White House
- Why Trump’s East Wing Demolition Needed to Happen by The New York Times (Ross Douthat)
Hurricane Melissa Makes Landfall: Pray for the People of Jamaica
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 29, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | As you well know, we are now in the second longest government shutdown in American history. |
| 0:19.0 | And it's a political standoff. It's a standoff |
| 0:22.0 | between President Trump and his administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress. And in |
| 0:27.3 | particular right now, that means the Democratic members of the United States Senate, because that is |
| 0:33.4 | where the hang up now comes. And you have Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, very liberal |
| 0:38.6 | Democratic senator who has decided that he's going to draw a line in the sand. This is going to be |
| 0:43.1 | his opportunity to grandstand. Honestly, at least until the last several days, both the Trump |
| 0:49.0 | administration, and that means President Trump himself, and Democrats in the Senate in particular, they've each at least acted like they felt they're in the driver's seat. |
| 0:58.0 | But the situation changed rather significantly in the last 36 hours. |
| 1:02.6 | The most important change is that the largest union of federal government employees, the American Federation of Government employees, came out with a clear |
| 1:12.5 | plea to the party they generally support. The Democratic Party is generally supported by this |
| 1:19.0 | labor union of federal employees. That makes perfect sense. And yet these federal employees are now |
| 1:24.8 | calling out to Democrats because it's the Democrats they see as the |
| 1:28.1 | obstructionist and instruction to what, at least in part, to paying them. It turns out that's as |
| 1:35.0 | important to them as their vote, maybe more important than their vote. The head of the union, |
| 1:39.1 | Everett Kelly, made the statement that what was needed was the end to this government shutdown. He said it's |
| 1:45.2 | time to pass a clear continuing resolution and for the government basically to get back |
| 1:51.5 | to work. And this clean or clear resolution means a continuing resolution that's a |
| 1:57.6 | funding mechanism that just continues current rates of government spending. |
| 2:02.0 | Let's remember the Democratic game plan here is to draw a line in the sand and challenge the Trump |
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