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GOP closes door on talks as Ds say they won’t back off their demands. Britt: “They are stopping people's paychecks because they want to have a conversation.” Cornyn: “We capitulate to their outrageous demands now, can you imagine what it'll be like then? This is bad behavior.”


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Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN’s KFile. cnn.com/2025/10/16/pol…


For the 10th time, Senate Dems block GOP bill to reopen government Same crossovers: Fetterman, King, Cortez Masto vote YES Paul: NO. Senate expected to leave town until Monday. Ds want talks on ACA, Rs says open govt first Shutdown to extend to week four and no end in sight


GOP Sen. Kennedy: “I think this will be the longest shutdown in the history of ever. And I don't say that happily … I'm just saying that realistically.” Think it’ll go past Thanksgiving? “I do. I just don't see what's going to get us out of it” Cites “unrealistic” D demands


Asked Chuck Schumer if it was time for Dems to scale back their demands given the GOP has rejected them — in order to reopen govt. “The bottom line is they won't even negotiate with us so that's a premature question,” he said.


51-44, Senate Dems block GOP plan to open govt for ninth time. Same crossovers. Dems saying they’re only getting pressure to dig in. Murphy: “I feel only pressure to fight.” Merkley: “No, the pressure is completely the opposite. People understand it's over health care.”


Seth Moulton, who announced he’s challenging Ed Markey in #masen primary, told me this about whether he could back Chuck Schumer for leader if he wins. “That would be a very tough decision. It wouldn’t be an easy vote.” Comments came a few weeks ago as he was weighing a bid

New — Rep Seth Moulton says he’s weighing primary bid against Ed Markey. “Democrats are not satisfied with the status quo…Everyone knows we are opposed to Trump. But what are we gonna do differently?” On Schumer, says Ds felt “betrayed” on hos he handled shutdown fight in March



GOP Rep. Cory Mills is prohibited from going within 500 feet of his ex-girlfriend’s home and workplace, according to a court document, per @VeronicaStrac cnn.com/2025/10/14/pol…


Republicans are opposed to the Dem plan (and have blocked it seven times in Senate) — so at what point will Ds make a new counteroffer to lay out their demands to try to end shutdown? Jeffries: “There has to be a willingness amongst Republicans to actually have a conversation.”


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.@alexanderbolton asked Thune if its legal to pay the troops during shutdown “Where they are trying to find some of the funding is out of areas of the budget that obviously they will replenish and pay back. But these are the decisions that get forced upon you when the government…


On the gerrymandering wars upending the midterms, Hakeem Jeffries says the California response to Texas “will not be the last … That is just the beginning of the Democratic response.” He says Ds will respond ‘forcefully,’ though Dems have far more barriers in blue states


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Johnson: “Manu asks, ‘Why don’t I change my strategy?’ I don’t have any strategy, Manu. I’m doing the right thing…I don’t have anything to negotiate.”


Just asked speaker if he should change strategy since pressuring Senate Ds to back House’s stop-gap isn’t working “I don’t have any strategy. .. I’m doing the right thing” Asked him about a middleground with Schumer. “I'm not playing his game,” he said c-span.org/clip/news-conf…


Speaker Johnson again makes clear he won’t administer oath of office to Adelita Grijalva until House returns. He’s sent the House home amid the shutdown to pressure Senate Dems to back House stop-gap. Last week, he told us he would swear her in “as soon as she wants.”


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