Shutdown Nears End Amid Nationwide Airport Chaos, Push to Nuke Filibuster Grows: AM Update 11⧸10
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As the government shutdown enters its 40th day, the toll on air travel continues to mount, and the impact on U.S. airports continues to grow. Meanwhile, the White House and Congress continue to negotiate a deal to re-open the government.
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It's Monday, November 10th, 2025, and this is your AM update.
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Chaos at the nation's airports as they contend with travel delays
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and canceled flights caused by the government shutdown.
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As Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm.
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This is the place where the grown-ups need to sit down and to be able to have hard conversations.
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Senate Republicans facing mounting pressure from the White House to go nuclear and ditch the filibuster.
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Former FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, as well as former CIA Director John Brennan,
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Late last night, the Senate agreeing to a deal to advance the House-passed continuing resolution,
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keeping funding at current levels through January 30th,
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the first step to reopening the government as the record 40-day shutdown continues.
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Later this week, the Senate will vote on a package of bills that would fully fund certain departments
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all the way through the end of the fiscal year, September 30th, 2026,
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including the Agriculture Department, FDA, Veterans Affairs, Military Construction,
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and Congressional Operations, according to Politico.
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The House will then have to approve any Senate-passed deals.
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Part of the deal includes a separate vote this December on a Democrat proposal to extend Obamacare
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The agreement also funding SNAP benefits, food assistance for low-income families,
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through September of 2026, and would assist federal employees who were laid off in the shutdown,
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Meanwhile, thousands of weary air travelers over the weekend feeling the toll of the shutdown
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at airports nationwide, a sampling from ABC7 at Reagan National Airport in D.C.
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Kind of speechless with it because our world is just sort of really crazy right now.
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and the government is serving itself and not the people.
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I feel like the American people are being held hostage right now.
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Starting last Friday, the FAA reducing flights at 40 of the nation's top airports amid air traffic
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control staffing shortages, beginning with a 4% cut in air traffic, rising by 1% each day,
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up to 10% by midweek this week if the shutdown continues.
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FAA Administrator Brian Bedford saying last week,
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a massive 20 to 40% of controllers are failing to report to work on any given day,
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as they, like other federal employees, have not been paid for weeks,
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missing two full paychecks since the government shutdown began on October 1st.
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Just on Saturday, Fox reporting 5,450 flights delayed,
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American Delta, Southwest, and United, each canceling about 700 flights.
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As the shutdown continues, those numbers only set to rise.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warning air traffic will fall to, quote,
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Secretary Duffy sounding the alarm on Sunday, appearing on both Fox and CNN
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about the mounting strain on U.S. airports as air traffic controllers work without pay.
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Yesterday, we had 81 staffing triggers with air traffic controllers across the airspace.
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You reported there was a, you know, a whole slew of cancellations and delays across the airspace.
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More controllers aren't coming to work day by day the further they go without a paycheck
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I have more complaints coming into the FAA from pilots who are saying that air traffic controllers
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They seem stressed or they're not using the appropriate language because they're under pressure.
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So I look at that data that came from the safety team, and the trend line is going in the wrong direction.
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So I need to take action and make sure that we keep people safe.
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Secretary Duffy warning last week in a press conference that even with the passage of a budget deal,
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If the government opens on day one, will I see an immediate response from controllers?
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No, the union is telling me it's going to take time to get them all back in.
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Okay, I don't wish this was the circumstance in which I was dealing with.
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So I imagine as we see the data change and more controllers come to work,
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we are as quickly as possible going to take these restrictions away.
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But we have to look at how many controllers come to work
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and how long that takes after the government opens back up.
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The White House pushing hard on Senate Republicans to kill the filibuster.
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The Senate rule that requires 60 votes to get a vote on most legislation,
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which then would need 51 votes in order to pass.
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President Trump in recent weeks arguing that ending the filibuster is essential
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Democrats nearly abolishing the filibuster in January 2022
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in an effort to pass so-called voting rights legislation.
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with Democrat Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema joining Republicans
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Vice President J.D. Vance, posting to X Friday Morning, quote,
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Many of my friends and former colleagues in the Senate are against eliminating the filibuster
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because they don't think the Democrats will do it.
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The reason the filibuster exists is because of Democratic Senators Manchin and Sinema.
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Both of them had their careers destroyed by the far left for protecting the filibuster.
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And you better believe every Senate Democrat internalized that lesson.
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Key Republican Senators still resisting the call.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune telling local South Dakota outlet KELO on Thursday,
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Getting rid of the filibuster is not the answer here.
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And frankly, there aren't the votes to do it, even if we tried.
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U.S. Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, a Republican,
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Sunday on Meet the Press arguing to preserve the Senate's structure.
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The filibuster has been a core in the United States Senate since the early 1800s.
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But what's unique about the filibuster and about the United States Senate,
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it's the only place in our government where both sides have to talk to each other.
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This is the place where the grownups need to sit down and to be able to have hard conversations
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In the House of Representatives, it's majority only.
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The Senate forces both sides to talk to each other.
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U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, also a Republican, Sunday on Fox,
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calling on his fellow GOP colleagues to ditch the filibuster.
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I've got to believe every Republican believes they'll do that.
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Listen, I wish the Democrats respect the filibuster.
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It's a good thing for the institution, but they don't.
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A lot of realities sometimes you don't like to recognize.
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But if you don't, you're going to be in big trouble.
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And that's basically what President Trump is saying.
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If we want to do good things to the American public,
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GOP Senators Jim Banks and Tommy Tuberville have also signaled
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U.S. Senator Adam Schiff of California, a Democrat,
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Sunday on ABC saying he supports abolishing the filibuster
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When you were running for Senate, you came out against the filibuster.
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If that comes to the Senate floor, will you vote for it?
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and would be happy to do away with the filibuster.
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But the question is, do away with it for what reason?
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and protect people's freedoms and their rights.
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are talking about doing away with the filibuster
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That is the wrong reason to do away with the filibuster.
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and it was actually put forward by our friend Jeremy Boring.
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What he suggested is that what Republicans should do,
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what Republicans should do is they should say to Democrats,
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Because that's like, okay, either we're all on board
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We're not going to play this kind of take-em-on-faith game,
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former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page,
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The probe, based out of the Southern District of Florida,
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overseen by U.S. Attorney Jason Redding Quinonez.
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the people targeted are seen as part of the conspiracy
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Article III Project founder and President Mike Davis
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Strzok, the former FBI counterintelligence agent
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Robert Mueller's team investigating possible collusion.
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August 8th, 2016, Lisa Page writing to Strzok, quote,
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quote, Trump's not ever going to become president, right?
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leading to Strzok's removal from the Mueller team.
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for internal discipline rather than criminal charges.
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In July 2024, the Biden DOJ agreeing to pay them
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a $2 million settlement over the public release
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from current CIA Director John Ratcliffe to the DOJ.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
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declassifying the 2020 House Intelligence Committee report,
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finding top intel officials, including Mr. Brennan,
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which claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin,
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aspired to help then-candidate Trump win in 2016.
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Since then, Brennan has been referred to the DOJ
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by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan,
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on the discredited, Clinton-funded opposition research,
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pressing Brennan on his Russian disinformation expertise,
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you were involved with analyzing the Steele dossier.
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no, I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all.
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and the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier.
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according to the now-released 2020 Intel report,
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not only was the CIA involved with that dossier,
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despite objections from senior CIA Intel officials.
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Those agents citing its serious credibility problems,
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Mr. Brennan has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
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Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on Friday
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officially launching her campaign for governor of New York,
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