Will the Shutdown Deal Actually Hold?
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. It's me, Sam Stein. Managing End up the Bullwork, and I'm here with Joe Perticoan, who is covering Capitol Hill for us with his press pass newsletter, which you should subscribe to. It's awesome. We are coming here late Sunday night. It's like 8 o'clock on Sunday night. I'm telling you the timestamp, because by the time you watch this, it's likely that this video will feel dated. but we're going to do it anyway because it |
| 0:22.0 | appears that there is a deal in the Senate to end this government shutdown. |
| 0:29.7 | This happened pretty quickly today through the course of the day, but we were getting wind of |
| 0:33.4 | it throughout the course of the day, and then we are awaiting John Thune, the majority leader, |
| 0:38.4 | to speak on the matter. But Joe, tell us what we know. And then I'm going to get into the case |
| 0:44.0 | for the deal and the case against the deal. But tell us what we know. So I watched the Niners |
| 0:48.4 | get killed today and I wanted to just go to bed. And the Senate had other plans. |
| 0:56.3 | And so anyway, this is a, depending on who you ask, it's a cave or it's a compromise. |
| 1:04.3 | What it entails basically is led by Angus King, Jane Shaheen, Maggie Hassan. |
| 1:11.3 | Basically, it's a CR, the same old House-Paths, but it goes through January 30th, |
| 1:17.3 | so we'll get to do this again in a couple months. |
| 1:19.7 | Nice. |
| 1:20.2 | And then they get a promised vote on a Democratic Affordable Care Act extension in December, so like 40 days from now. |
| 1:32.0 | Now, those are the, just because those are the extended subsidies for the affordable care. |
| 1:36.4 | Okay, got you. |
| 1:36.9 | And that's the thing they've been wanting to get out of this all along, but this is much further away. |
| 1:42.4 | They originally wanted it to be a part of reopening. |
| 1:46.0 | And then there's a minibus, which is, you know, a cobbling together of some funding |
| 1:51.3 | things, which will be reversal of shutdown reduction in forces and back pay and then |
| 1:57.5 | protections against them potentially happening in the future. |
| 2:00.4 | Plus, Snap, the food |
| 2:02.4 | assistance program funded through the end of fiscal year, 26. Okay. I just want to set the stage with |
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