CR Bill

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday that he will call House members back to Washington as soon as the Senate passes an amended Continuing Resolution (CR) to reopen the government.

“We’ll give a 36-hour formal and official notice,” Johnson told reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Monday morning.

The deal, having passed its first procedural hurdle in the Senate, is expected to lead to the government reopening in a matter of days, pending final votes in both chambers and President Trump’s signature.

Johnson sent House members home on September 19 and has kept the chamber in recess, effectively preventing further legislative action until the Senate approved the House’s funding bill with 60 votes.

After 36 days of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) historic federal government shutdown, Democrats are quietly scrambling to find a way out.

It comes as divisions within the Democrat ranks and a growing backlash from unpaid workers are complicating any move to end the standoff.

The shutdown, which entered record-breaking territory Tuesday night, has now surpassed the 2019 mark to become the longest in U.S. history.

Despite public frustration and mounting economic fallout, Democrats have continued to block Republican efforts to reopen the government.

Inside the Senate, Democratic Party leaders huddled behind closed doors for nearly three hours.

During the meeting, Democrats were debating possible off-ramps, including a vote on Obamacare subsidies and attaching spending bills to an extended continuing resolution (CR) that could run into December or January.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., elaborated on the group’s support for a longer-term continuing resolution in an interview this week with The Daily Signal.

The group had released a statement on Monday supporting the passage of a continuing resolution to fund the government “as far into 2026 as possible (ideally, past the November 2026 election and with necessary defense stop-start anomalies).”

The statement went on to note that such a CR would “effectively keep federal discretionary spending flat at the same levels since 2023,” and “block any further effort by Democrats and the Swamp to advance a budget-busting, pork-filled, lobbyist-handout omnibus in November or December.”

The Daily Signal also received a statement from Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who concurred. “Congress must act responsibly and pass a long-term continuing resolution to fund the federal government—not another short-term patch that merely delays the inevitable. These constant, stopgap extensions have become a political crutch, allowing Congress to lurch from one manufactured crisis to the next instead of governing with fiscal sanity and discipline.”

President Trump on Wednesday redoubled his efforts to end the Senate filibuster rule, despite opposition from key Republicans.

Trump has repeatedly called for the elimination of the filibuster, urging GOP senators to use the so-called “nuclear option” to pass legislation with a simple majority. The filibuster currently requires 60 out of 100 senators to agree on most legislation, which has been a major obstacle in ending the government shutdown that began on October 1.
Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and would be able to pass bills with a simple majority if the filibuster were removed.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republican leaders have resisted weakening the filibuster, citing concerns about long-term consequences and precedent.

Thune and Johnson have failed to enact federal election security measures or impeach activist judges accused of bias in the ten months since Republicans gained congressional majorities.

The Federal aviation Administration (FAA) will reduce flight capacity by 10 percent at 40 major airports across the country starting Friday due to critical shortages among air traffic controllers and other flight support staff, thousands of whom have been forced to work without pay for a month due to the Democrat-led government shutdown.

The restrictions will go into effect Friday morning, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced during a press conference on Wednesday. The airports affected will be announced Thursday, officials said.

According to a report from ABC News citing sources familiar with the matter, reductions will start at four percent as early as Friday and work up to 10 percent over the course of the weekend. The flights impacted by these reductions are scheduled during the hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

When Greene flirted with a statewide run in Georgia, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s political team quietly told her she wouldn’t beat Senator Jon Ossoff. That hit hard. Some people point to that moment in May as the catalyst for what we see now. It’s not just rejection of Speaker Mike Johnson. It’s a series of perceived slights from the broader MAGA machine, and she’s not hiding her bitterness even while insisting, “I support President Trump.”

Her recent Washington Post interview makes her grievance plain. “Whereas President Trump has a very strong, dominant style — he’s not weak at all — a lot of the men here in the House are weak,” Greene told the Post. “There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women. So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something and actually want to achieve.”

The once-promising marriage between Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Republican Party appears to be headed for a nasty divorce.

Greene — who rose to prominence as one of the loudest and staunchest supporters of President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement — has been headed down this path for a while now.

The outspoken Greene has been excoriating her own Republican Party over the last month, particularly raging about the ongoing government shutdown and the battle over healthcare premiums.

(In a clear break from her party line, Greene doesn’t seem too interested in blaming Democrats for the shutdown.)

WARNING: The following post contains vulgar language that may offend some readers. 

I was not in Congress when all this Obamacare, “Affordable Care Act” bullshit started. I got here in 2021. As a matter of fact, the ACA made health insurance UNAFFORDABLE for my family after it was passed, with skyrocketing premiums higher than our house payment.

Let’s just say… pic.twitter.com/hKH7pPh6CG

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 6, 2025

You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders.

And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax… https://t.co/eiY6M8tJyD

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 28, 2025

Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has mysteriously changed his tune on eliminating the Senate filibuster shortly after President Donald Trump called on Republicans to end the procedure.

On Wednesday, the anti-Trump Democrat declined to say whether he supports eliminating the filibuster, despite previously being a vocal supporter of such efforts.

Raskin previously endorsed calls to end the filibuster during the Biden administration.

The congressman was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash about President Trump’s recent comments urging Republicans to end the filibuster.

He was also asked about the GOP’s losses in several races on Tuesday and the ongoing government shutdown.

“One of the things that he has been talking about for the last couple of days more intensely is getting rid of the filibuster,” Bash asked.

The media are, of course, trying to blame the SNAP shortages on President Trump and Republicans. They’ve done their job and voted more than a dozen times to reopen the government. Democrats, on the other hand, have made it very clear they plan to use Americans’ suffering as leverage.

It would perhaps be easier for the media to garner sympathy if they chose stories about people who are more sympathetic. The other day, they spoke to a woman who had been on SNAP for three decades, which proved SNAP critics correct.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says that he’s ‘hoping and praying’ that there are enough Democrats in the Senate willing to break ranks and ‘do the right thing’.

But apparently there’s an actual plan in place, and it’s gaining steam.

Reports are now indicating that a group of rogue Democrats are willing to work behind Chuck Schumer’s back to help Republicans end the government shutdown…

Here’s a clip of Speaker Johnson confirming that change of approach:

Speaker Johnson was apparently referring to a very specific group of Democrats in the US Senate.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has a real problem. People are realizing that the extended government shutdown is his own deliberate, cynical strategy.

The Democrats and the propaganda media desperately want Americans to blame President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans for the shutdown. But the facts are simply in their way. The House Republicans did their job on Sept. 19.

They passed a clean budget resolution to keep the government open without increasing spending. There were no new policy issues. There were no so-called poison pills to cost Democratic votes. There was no clever maneuvering. It was a simple, clean resolution – specifically designed to avoid drama and fund the federal government while the Congress and the President negotiate next year’s funding.

Further, this was a normal move. Simple, clean continuing resolutions have been used by Democratic-and Republican-led Congresses and presidents for many years.

SNAP food benefits for around 42 million Americans could resume as early as Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday morning, after two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds during the government shutdown. The action follows rulings on Friday by federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island directing the administration to draw on emergency resources to continue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme payments. Judge Jack McConnell of Rhode Island also instructed that the funds be provided “as soon as possible,” CNBC reported. Boston Judge Indira Talwani gave the administration until Monday to inform her whether it will authorise at least reduced SNAP benefits for November. The aid was originally set to be cut off on November 1.

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has declared that his fellow Democrats should “own the shutdown” as the government closure enters its second month.

Fetterman argues that the Democrats must acknowledge that the party bears responsibility for the ongoing stalemate that has left millions of Americans without federal food assistance.

During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Fetterman was asked about the lapse of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on November 1.

The lapse cut off benefits for roughly 42 million Americans, including two million Pennsylvanians.

Tapper framed the issue as a political standoff between the White House and the Trump administration, asking Fetterman who he believed was to blame.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien stood with Trump administration officials this week to call on Democrats to end the government shutdown for the sake of the American people.

Tensions are boiling online as SNAP beneficiaries vent frustration on social media over the Democrats’ ongoing government shutdown, warning they could lose grocery benefits starting November 1.

Some are even threatening to loot stores if payments don’t arrive on time.

“It is the taxpayer’s responsibility to take care of my kids,” one emotional mother declared in a viral video.

“It is the taxpayer’s job to pay for my kids to eat and for my kids to be taken care of.”

The woman also complained that none of her TikTok followers had sent her money and vowed to block anyone who watched her content without sending cash.

As usual, I don’t make the news — I just report it.

And everything I just typed in that headline is 100% accurate.

Another black woman has just melted down, going on a vile rant and issuing a threat to President Trump over her EBT food stamps.

Sick stuff!

Also, how hilarious is it that she’s complaining about not getting her food stamps, meanwhile she’s chewing on some food the whole time she’s  shooting this video!

NASTY!

Chew and swallow your food before you record a video!

Also, can I make a few other suggestions?

If you’re so hard up for money, may I suggest shifting the money you spend on hair dye and fake eye-lashes into the FOOD budget?

Just an idea.

We can also shut down the jewelry budget and take off and sell that disgusting nose ring, and put that money into the food budget.

I think I could have your problem fixed real quick!

Oh, and here’s another idea….instead of sitting at home on your ass posting these videos to TikTok all day long, how about you get a JOB and use the salary from that job for the food budget?

Hey, I’m pretty good at this!  Turns out this is not hard at all!

But instead of doing any of those things, this woman chose to record a video issuing a threat to President Trump.

Watch here:

TRANSCRIPT (in case you can’t understand all the ghetto-speak amidst all the food chewing):

Let me tell you something.

Trump got about 2.5 seconds to turn these motherfucking stamps back on or it’s gonna be a jet too motherfucking holiday all up and through Walmart.

And I ain’t fucking playing.

‘Cause let me tell you something.

You got us fucked up — you got us fucked up if you think we not gonna go in these stores and do what the fuck we were already doing.

We were already doing it, but see now we’re telling y’all, okay — we were already telling y’all, but see now we don’t give a fuck; we already didn’t give a fuck.

President Donald Trump says it is time for the Senate to end its 60-vote requirement to pass substantive legislation so that the government shutdown can end.

“BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD ‘CRAZY,’ THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote Thursday night in a post on Truth Social.

The federal government has largely been shut down since Oct. 1 after Senate Democrats declined to approve a House-passed bill to keep it running through mid-November.

The Washington Post editorial board blasted Senate Democrats on Wednesday for “holding the government hostage” in a month-long shutdown aimed at forcing an extension of costly Obamacare subsidies.

The board is warning that the Democrats’ obstruction could soon leave millions of Americans without food assistance.

“The right answer is to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, ideally for a full year, to get food stamps flowing and federal workers back in the office, and then have a debate about ACA subsidies,” the Post editorial said.

“Democrats openly acknowledge that they refuse to do this because it would mean giving up their leverage.

“If they persist, it could mean families start to go hungry.”

The day before the start of the latest shutdown drama, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared that Republicans were “lying” about the Democrats’ hostage demands to turn the lights back on. No, the left’s spending plan would not pay for health care for illegal immigrants, the New York Democrat said. Doing so would require a change in federal law that bars such a thing, echoed Jeffries’ pals in corporate media.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) faced an unlikely foe as he tried to plant the seeds of the Democrats’ narrative about the Schumer shutdown: CNN. Of all people, host Dana Bash blew up Jeffries’s “GOP shut down the government’ line, which knocked the New York liberal off course in comical fashion.

Bash rightly noted that Democrats rejected 14 motions to reopen the government:

Hakeem Jeffries was left momentarily stunned on CNN after host Dana Bash fact-checked his claim in real time that Republicans “shut down” the government.

The House Minority Leader wasn’t expecting the pushback and it showed.

He got heated.

JEFFRIES: “Donald Trump and… pic.twitter.com/DnSy3Gywmc

— Overton (@overton_news) November 5, 2025

JEFFRIES: “Donald Trump and Republicans shut the government and refused to reopen it. Donald Trump has spent the last 35 days, more time on the golf course, more time talking to Hamas and more time talking to the Chinese Communist Party than to Democrats on Capitol Hill, who represent half the country.”