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The Senate has finally passed the final bill to end the government shutdown and the bill will now head to the House. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 60 . . .

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Sunday night, the inevitable finally happened and the Senate Democrats finally cracked. After more than 40 days of pointless filibustering, which furthered a government shutdown from which most Americans saw no measureable effects and weren’t particularly transfixed by, seven of them — plus a Democrat-leaning independent — joined the Republicans (except for the increasingly tiresome Rand Paul) in producing 60 votes for an amended continuing resolution on the federal budget which does a few noteworthy things. The CR covers federal spending through the end of January, which avoids the destructive customary end-of-the-year omnibus crush through which Congress has blown so much wasteful spending, and it also gives some time for the nine unpassed federal budget bills to make their way through the legislative process. House Speaker Mike Johnson has made it his mission to return the budget process to “regular order,” which is defined as both houses passing the 12 appropriations bills on time each year and thus needing no continuing resolutions to keep the government’s operations uninterrupted. Before the just-ended shutdown fight and the Democrats’ decision to filibuster the short-term CR, it looked like there was a real chance of getting back to regular order for the first time this century. (RELATED: The Shutdown Cometh, and Not a Moment Too Soon) Maybe it’ll happen before the current CR expires. Three of the 12 bills have now passed both houses. Later this week, the House will pass the amended versions of the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs bill, the Agriculture bill, and the Legislative Branch bill. Additionally, the CR will fund the SNAP program through the end of the just-commenced current fiscal year, meaning future Democrat filibusters for the next 11 months won’t threaten anyone with starvation. Federal workers will get full back pay. And the reductions-in-force that Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought executed last month are reversed, which does not mean the people in those jobs are necessarily rehired; Vought might opt to hire different people in those positions or to confirm the RIFs. (RELATED: The Sombrero Shutdown Needs Some Time to Deliver Its Benefits) This is awfully, awfully thin gruel for the Democrats. They have unquestionably lost the shutdown fight. We know now that most of the filibustering the Democrats engaged in over the past six weeks was pure politics. It was all about ginning up their base for last week’s elections, and particularly in Virginia, where they were trying to pass a slate of truly noxious candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. That worked, as all the furloughed federal employees in Northern Virginia had nothing better to do than turn into an army of get-out-the-vote activists, and with GOP voters less than enthused about their own slate, the Dems had a big cycle and were able to shape a narrative of a party on the comeback trail. (RELATED: Five Quick Things: The Mamdani Matriarchy Sets Up Shop In NYC) And it’s certainly the narrative they want. The problem is that it doesn’t contain a lot of substance. And it’s already fallen apart after Sunday night’s collapse. Let’s not kid ourselves — the GOP coalition is definitely a winning one, but only when it actually shows up. And old-school, blue-blood Bush Republicans who aren’t comfortable pushing America First policies and messaging like they actually care about winning do not turn out today’s Republican voters. That confers an advantage for Democrats, which can save them in off-year and off-cycle elections. But it doesn’t change the fact that the public hates the current Democrat Party. And what we’re seeing now that the filibuster has fallen apart and the Schumer Shutdown stormtroopers have gotten routed is that the Democrats actually hate each other. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 295: Will Terminating the Filibuster End the Government Shutdown?) For example… Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for? — Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) November 10, 2025 After spending weeks insisting the Republicans caused the shutdown, the entire base is enraged that Democrats aren't continuing to cause the shutdown https://t.co/o954TnwOrd pic.twitter.com/rWPgumE2yX — Jared Taylor Swift (@DemsRealRacists) November 10, 2025 Oh, they absolutely hate Chuck Schumer now. Nobody should feel sorry for Chuck the Schmuck, who is one of the most noxious political hacks ever to pollute the halls of the U.S. Senate, but he was in an impossible situation that he had no good way out of. (RELATED: The Democrats Again Perform a Self-Own in Federal Shutdown) Schumer is a socialist, but he’s still more of an old-school liberal — crooked, to be sure, but not a revolutionary — than a lot of his more “modern” colleagues among Democrats on Capitol Hill. He knew that attempting to fight a rearguard action on budgets and shutdowns wouldn’t get his party anywhere, and he managed to get them to act on that knowledge back in March when the last CR came through. But the Hard Left villified Schumer for not leading a filibuster then; it didn’t matter to them that he was right. It didn’t matter to Schumer, either, because this time, with the stakes a lot higher, he folded to the Hard Left and led the filibuster. For nothing. Schumer and his team demanded a rollback of the Big Beautiful Bill, and specifically a surrender on its paring back spending on healthcare, which, it turns out, results in free stuff for illegal aliens. That didn’t happen. He wanted a surrender on Democrat demands that Biden/COVID-era subsidies for Obamacare premiums be continued past their expiration date, and all he got was an agreement that those would be voted on next month. (RELATED: Give Them Nothing, Speaker Johnson) And there could be an extension of those subsidies. But probably not without some Republican ideas for reforming Obamacare of a lot of its waste and fraud thrown into the mix. It’s unlikely that the Democrats get anything more than a Pyrrhic victory out of that fight in December. One of the biggest problems for Schumer is that his own side knows what happened on Sunday. Of those who broke the filibuster, John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez-Masto, plus the Democrat-caucusing independent Angus King, were always against shutting down the government. The other five — Dick Durbin, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, and Jacky Rosen — were either on their way out or politically damaged by the shutdown and needed relief. Schumer cut them loose to “betray” Democrat unity because the shutdown wasn’t all fun and games anymore. Not with SNAP benefits getting cut off and airports shutting down for lack of air traffic controllers. What we know now is that we can have a six-week government shutdown, and if it’s managed competently by the executive branch, most of the country won’t care. Hit that six-week mark, and things get ugly enough that somebody has to admit they lost the game of chicken. Which is Schumer. Who even took a knife in the back from Temu Obama, his fellow New Yorker, who is now all in with the Hard Left… My statement on the spending legislation and Republican healthcare crisis. pic.twitter.com/lKsft6fbJ6 — Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) November 9, 2025 The Hard Leftists in the Democrat Party all know that the shutdown was performative. They know that because they were the performers, but now they know that Schumer was also performing. He was pretending that he was with them, but when the shutdown actually had real stakes, he sold them out by sending the people with either the least or the most to lose to go and break the filibuster. He’s going to lose his job as Minority Leader over this, and probably his Senate seat after next year’s Democrat primary in New York. None of that is much of a shock, of course — he’s been there far too long and any sane party would have already begun phasing him out of power (and no, the GOP is not sane, either; look how long Morphine Mitch McConnell was allowed to micturate in the party’s mess kit before something was finally done about him). But there is no succession plan among Democrats in the Senate. There is no talented young leader ready to assume the reins of power on their side, and certainly no one who can rally the American people around a rejuvenated, solutions-driven Democrat Party in advance of the midterms. What’s coming is a civil war among the Democrats, and it’s going to be bloody. What’s coming is a civil war among the Democrats, and it’s going to be bloody. Watch for lots more retirements among their people on Capitol Hill in the coming weeks to follow Nancy Pelosi’s pulling the “eject” lever last week, and knife-fights galore in the primary races in the House and Senate. (RELATED: How Nancy Pelosi Betrayed the People She Pretended to Protect) The active ingredient in the party is the Mamdani/AOC wing driving it to the far left, and the old-line liberal corruptocrats like Schumer and Pelosi, who plugged the Democrats into the Deep State and profited off the turning of the machine’s gears for decades, are simply out of gas. The problem is that the Mamdani/AOC wing is stupid and crazy and anti-American in all the ways that count. And most of the public, the people who are generally relatively somnambulent voters but will turn out for midterms and presidential elections, want nothing to do with ultra-woke, stupid communist politicians from dysfunctional deep blue cities. If the Republicans were smart, they’d unleash a whirlwind of legislation and dare Schumer and the Dems to filibuster all of it. Ram the nine remaining appropriations bills through the House and throw them in Schumer’s face, and then bring bills on every 80-20 issue the Democrats are on the wrong side of and legislate as aggressively as you dare. Let them spend the majority of the next four months fighting against election integrity, for sharia law, for boys in girls’ locker rooms and pediatric sex changes, for welfare queens and Venezuelan and Mexican drug lords, and for all manner of other justly lost causes. And when they’ve utterly burned themselves by next spring, drop a repeal-and-replace Obamacare bill that contains every good Republican idea and let them try to filibuster it. Thankfully, the shutdown impasse was broken before ending the filibuster needed to be seriously debated. But that question will come again. When it does, rather than ending the filibuster altogether, Senate Majority Leader John Thune should insist on instituting a physical filibuster — the Mr. Smith Goes To Washington ordeal in which the filibusterers have to physically hold the floor of the Senate, speaking for hours on end, one after another, until all of them are exhausted. That should have already been imposed on Schumer and his unruly minions. Now that they’ve been broken, there should be no quarter given. It’s time to legislate. It’s time to take the spoils of this victory and to leave the defeated enemy utterly demoralized and begging for mercy not to be given. Step on the gas, Mike Johnson and John Thune, and don’t let this moment go to waste. READ MORE from Scott McKay: Five Quick Things: The Mamdani Matriarchy Sets Up Shop In NYC The Cold Civil War Is Now on Defrost, and the Right Still Isn’t Ready Dear President Trump, Please Make Carbon Capture Go Away

Imagine an entire generation, then erase nearly a third of it. That’s not a half-hearted thought experiment. It’s a national crime scene, neatly packaged as progress.  Recent demographic reports reveal a devastating reality. Nearly 28 percent of Gen Z in America were denied the simple mercy of daylight. Between 1997 and 2011, 19.5 million lives were ended before they began. For every classroom, every cradle, every dinner table, an empty space mourns what never was. The global context is equally grim. Nearly one in three pregnancies worldwide ends in abortion. In England and Wales, the rate has reached an all-time high. What was once framed as a “rare and tragic choice” has become routine — a conveyor belt of convenience turning human potential into medical waste. What looks like liberation is, in reality, liquidation.  Our culture — decadent and desensitized — plays a central role. Celebrities now speak of abortion not with grief but with pride, turning tragedy into trend. British pop star Lily Allen — one of the defining names of the 2010s — recently confessed she’d had so many abortions she’d lost count. She said it casually, almost proudly, as though ending life were an act of empowerment. Once, that kind of confession would have shocked a nation. Today, it barely raises an eyebrow. (RELATED: What Are the Consequences of Destigmatizing Abortion?) A nation that won’t create life is already courting death. Of course, the shift didn’t begin with Allen. It began with Roe v. Wade. From there, it swept across the West. By the 1990s, life was no longer sacred but symbolic — a battleground for autonomy. Abortion, once a tragic last resort, became a badge of modern freedom: marketed, subsidized, and passionately defended. What once whispered in back alleys now screamed from billboards. The sanctity of life yielded to the supremacy of choice. (RELATED: How Trump 2.0 Can Get Back to Trump 1.0 on the Abortion Pill) And the trend shows no sign of slowing. In America, abortion rates are rising again, proof that the fall of Roe ended nothing. The borders of legality shift, but the outcome never does. The states that restrict it drive women to those that expand it; the killing merely changes zip codes. And all this unfolds as the nation’s population ages, its birth rate plunges, and its replacement rate collapses. The country is greying, yet instead of nurturing new life, it’s eliminating it. A nation that won’t create life is already courting death. (RELATED: The Left Has a Baby Dilemma) Many will object — what about cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother’s life? These are awful, gut-wrenching realities. But they remain the exception, not the norm. They are vanishingly rare, a fraction of a fraction. The overwhelming majority of abortions are not born of horror but of habit, not of desperation but of decision. And that makes them all the more tragic. The language around abortion has always worn a deceptive disguise — sterile in tone, surgical in intent, and ruthlessly effective. We speak of “reproductive rights,” as if death were a democratic process. We call it “healthcare,” as though the illness lies in the existence of the child. Bureaucrats talk of “access” and “autonomy,” but never of aftermath — the depression, the guilt, the silence that follows when the celebration fades. Even the word fetus — Latin for “offspring” — has been repurposed to erase the human beneath the term, reducing life to a clump of cells for semantic comfort. This is not the language of liberty, but the dialect of denial. (RELATED: Activists in Michigan Move to Integrate Abortions Into Urgent Care Clinics) Dark humor creeps in because despair alone isn’t enough to process the absurdity. America, a nation obsessed with youth and vitality, is sabotaging its future while pretending to secure it. Silicon Valley dreams of eternal life through data, while maternity wards fall silent. The same culture that fights infertility with science destroys fertility with ideology. Corporations offer to pay for abortions as a “benefit,” not out of kindness but cost-effectiveness. After all, it’s far cheaper to end a pregnancy than to honor the person who carries it. (RELATED: Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid: Bryan Johnson’s Cult of Don’t Die) And yet, there’s still time — if only just. People have found renewal before, in the dust left by their own delusions. The same country that ended slavery and segregation can still wake from this suicidal sleepwalk. But awakening demands honesty, and honesty demands horror. We must face what we’ve allowed to happen. Not only with shame, but with the will to repent. We’ve lost 20 million people who will never laugh, create, love, or lead. Twenty million futures extinguished, mostly by design. That’s not healthcare. That’s not freedom. That’s elimination, streamlined and sold as self-determination. America once called itself a shining city on a hill. Today, the lights are dimmer, flickering as though mourning the souls who were never allowed to hold the torch. READ MORE from John Mac Ghlionn: How Nancy Pelosi Betrayed the People She Pretended to Protect Mamdani’s All-Female Fantasy Designer Babies and a Brave New Biopolitics

Even as the federal government shutdown enters its seventh and final week, for most Americans, life has continued as normal. Remarkably, having large parts of the federal government shutdown for a month and a half has had limited impact on grocery stores, car dealerships, restaurants, retail stores, and many other parts of the economy. Yet there is one area of life where the shutdown did affect many ordinary Americans: air travel. (RELATED: Leadership Is the Key to Fixing Our Air Traffic Control Crisis) Flight delays have gotten longer and more frequent in the past few weeks as TSA and air traffic controllers began calling in sick more, as they weren’t paid in October. The Secretary of Transportation reduced the number of flights that could be scheduled in order to maintain safety. Fewer and fewer flights were allowed as air traffic controllers and other personnel became scarcer. Pressure to reopen the federal government mounted as more Americans began to feel its effects. While federal employees deemed “essential” are supposed to continue working, they can also quit their jobs entirely. Although they will be paid (including back pay) once the House passes the final Senate bill and the president signs it, one can hardly blame them for scrambling to find odd jobs and taking sick days to do so. Imagine if your employer said, “We’re going to skip your next two paychecks, but don’t worry, in six weeks we’ll pay you in full.” There would be hell to pay if some company did that. Yet politicians in D.C., particularly Senate Democrats who were literally filibustering to keep the government shut down, did just that. Imagine if the federal government had been managing grocery stores or hospitals during the shutdown! The human collateral would have been swift and enormous. We can be thankful that hospitals, grocery stores, and so many other services and businesses in our society are private. But this raises an important question: why on earth do we let the federal government run our aviation industry? But providing air traffic control services and creating safety regulations are two different activities. In the U.S., the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) manages air traffic controllers and gets its funding from Congress. So it focuses on keeping Congress happy. The ATO exists within the Federal Aviation Administration (a safety regulator), so it skews towards status quo safetyism rather than efficiency and innovation. But providing air traffic control services and creating safety regulations are two different activities. Federal regulation makes some sense as air travel involves obvious interstate commerce. It is often better to have a single set of rules than 50 different ones. Air traffic controllers and security personnel, however, do not need to be federal government employees. Having air traffic controllers operate under a government agency has led to “excessive oversight” and a “lack of customer focus.” Around the world, air traffic control (ATC) services have increasingly been privatized. In fact, “the United States is the last developed country that has not [separated air traffic services from safety regulators].” New Zealand, Canada, Belgium, and Switzerland (among others) have all privatized their air traffic control services years or decades ago. The private sector can train, certify, and deploy air traffic controllers and provide security better and more cheaply than the federal government can. In fact, several studies have shown that non-governmental air traffic controller organizations spend less money and use better technology. The reasons are obvious: organizations respond to incentives. If the ATO were governed by a board of airline reps and business leaders, and if it were funded by customers who use its services, we would quickly see better funding and more innovation, lower costs, and greater reliability. We would also see greater stability in service with little exposure to political games in D.C. If the government shutdown teaches us anything, it is that we don’t want to rely on the federal government for basic market services like food, transportation, or medical care. Essential elements of our daily life should not be controlled by, or subject to, the whims of 40-some odd senators. Even though the shutdown will end soon, it’s time we made air traffic control and air traffic safety efficient, effective, and private again! READ MORE from Paul Mueller: The Trump Administration’s Agenda Is on a Crash Course With… Itself The Gimmicks in Trump’s Trade Deals The Trump Roller Coaster Ride

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