The Stack: Democrats Melt Down Over Government Shutdown Deal
The “Republican shutdown” narrative just collapsed. Eight Senate Democrats defected to end the standoff, confirming what Todd has said all along—the Democrats drove this shutdown.
Inside today’s show, Todd breaks down the Left’s growing rebellion against Chuck Schumer, the absurd talking points from The View, and why the media’s spin is finally falling apart.
He also looks at President Trump’s newly announced lawsuit against the BBC for doctoring his January 6 remarks, showing how deep the misinformation game runs.
Finally, on Veterans Day, Todd honors America’s heroes and reminds us why freedom still depends on those willing to defend it. Conservative, not bitter—this episode is proof that truth still matters more than political theater.
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Democrat Civil War Erupts on The View – Schumer’s Days Are Over
Chuck Schumer Faces Democratic Fury After Government Shutdown Deal
The View Host Sunny Hostin Blasts Democrats for “Caving to Trump”
The View Host Blasts Chuck Schumer After Senate Reaches Deal to End Shutdown
Trump Plans to Sue BBC for Defamation Over Doctored Jan. 6 Speech
BBC Chairman Apologizes for “Error of Judgment” in Trump Speech Edit
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📝 Transcript: Democrats Melt Down Over Government Shutdown Deal
The Todd Huff Show – November 11, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: And now, coming to you from the full Sweet Wealth studios, here's your conservative but not bitter host Todd Huff. You know what, my friends, today, the first time—I kid you not, I kid you not—as I'm doing a couple of things here behind the microphone to get readjusted, for the first time, I'm not kidding, the first time in over ten years now that we've been doing this program, I had a mic cable go out.
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Todd Huff: All right, I want to talk about the fallout from this negotiated government shutdown. You've got people out there who are highly upset on the Democratic Party side. They want to get rid of Chuck Schumer. They're throwing their tantrum. They thought they had a political winner. They don't understand why they settled and didn’t continue dragging the country through chaos and turmoil that they created.
Todd Huff: And so, by the way, we are validated with everything we've said on this program about the government shutdown and who is to blame for this. This is 100%—not that I needed it, by the way, because I understood how this worked—but this is validation and evidence that what we told you on this program was true. And what the media—well, the media actually, it was so bad the media stopped carrying the water for the Democrat Party as well.
Todd Huff: They even came around and told the truth and blamed the Democrats in the Senate. Anyway, I want to talk about the fallout. I want to talk a little bit in the second segment about a lawsuit that President Trump has filed—or that he's announced he’s going to file—against the BBC.
Todd Huff: I'd like to play a clip of the raw audio that exists from January 6 and how the BBC edited that to mislead its viewers as to what Trump was telling the people gathered around him as he spoke that day—what he called them to do, what he encouraged them to go to the Capitol and do.
Todd Huff: I've got that. And today is Veterans Day, and I want to say some words about that in the final segment. If you are an American military veteran, thank you off the top here for your service. We are free in large part because of people like you who are willing to stand up and defend the principles and the people of this great nation.
Todd Huff: You know better than anybody the threats that exist outside this country. I've got some friends who are veterans. My brother-in-law is a veteran. I've shared my story on here—I think I shared it—they wouldn’t take me. I was medically disqualified for sleepwalking in 1997. But I appreciate your service, and I want to pay a little bit of tribute to you in the final segment today.
Todd Huff: My friends, thank a veteran. Listen—in a world that we live in, there's a lot of hatred for anyone who even puts on the military uniform because there’s a lot of leftists out here who have—well, I’ll talk about this later—but they've been taught that this is a terrible place. Why on earth would you want to defend it, especially with a firearm? My heavens, can you imagine how terrible that person must be?
Todd Huff: This is, of course, what the radicals talk about and think about this great nation. So that’s where we’re headed today, my friends. Let me remind you—
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Todd Huff: have people who are highly, highly upset at what’s going on. Some are calling for Chuck Schumer to resign, to step aside because of this deal that has been negotiated.
Todd Huff: They are very, very upset. They believe he is at fault for this negotiated settlement and they want him to pay. Now, I am no fan of Chuck Schumer. I think he’s been bad for the American people, bad for the Democrat Party—an opportunist like Nancy Pelosi, not a leftist but a career liberal who can’t be trusted.
Todd Huff: I think he's done harm both to the country and to the Democrat Party. Now, I know that gives some credibility to many Democrats when they can point to some of the insane things that they've done, but I think Chuck Schumer has done plenty of things that are bad for the Democrat Party, even for himself. He hasn’t helped himself a lot.
Todd Huff: I don’t think this is one of those things. Just to recap — Monday, yesterday, the 10th of November, eight Democratic senators voted with Republicans to advance a bill to reopen the government. We now know that this is back in the House of Representatives. They're set to vote on this tomorrow, Wednesday.
Todd Huff: We believe it may not be—the earliest they can possibly begin this process of voting for this bill is about 4:00 p.m. Eastern tomorrow, on Wednesday the 12th. We went through this bill yesterday. I don’t want to belabor this, but this piece of legislation reopens the government and funds it through January 30th.
Todd Huff: It funds three of the twelve appropriations bills all the way through the end of fiscal year 2026, which I find interesting. One of those is the legislative appropriation, so they've taken care of their particular branch of government. There’s going to be fights on these other nine pieces of legislation, these other nine appropriations bills, and this is the fight we should’ve been having this entire time.
Todd Huff: This was caused 100% by the Democrats, as I said off the top. For those who said—and I'm going to play a sound bite here from Sunny Hostin and the women at The View—but for those who said this was the Republican shutdown, I ask you this: how do you end a “Republican” shutdown with eight Democrats voting in favor of ending it?
Todd Huff: Isn’t that, my friends, evidence that this has always been a Democrat shutdown? Republicans didn’t add a single vote to this process. The one vote that’s been against us pretty much from the beginning is Rand Paul. He did not join the 52 Republicans or the eight Democrat senators who actually ended this shutdown.
Todd Huff: So if it was a Republican shutdown—hear me say this, louder for the people in the back—if this was a Republican shutdown, why did it take eight Democrats to end it? Answer me that. Answer me. That is 100% proof positive that this was a Democrat shutdown.
Todd Huff: Now, that’s the first thing. The next thing—I’m queuing up this sound bite from Sunny Hostin on The View. And I know, listen, it’s The View. Who knows what they’re going to say or do. This, to me, while certainly humorous—it’s certainly a walk on the wild side to watch and listen to this—but this is what people on the Left are saying.
Todd Huff: Sunny Hostin is irate. She’s fired up—“fired up and ready to go,” as Obama would say at his rallies back in the day. She is fired up and ready to let Chuck Schumer go from his position of leadership. But before I do that, here’s the question: what did they want Chuck Schumer to do?
Todd Huff: Right? What were their expectations of their leader in the Senate? They wanted him to hold the caucus together, to hold Democrats together, to keep those Democrats from crossing over. By the way, several of them—three of the eight—had been crossed over to the Republican side for some time now. That includes John Fetterman and a couple of other Democratic senators we’ve documented throughout the process.
Todd Huff: So he’s held accountable for not holding the caucus together in firm opposition to the Republican Party and standing firm, I guess, in support of this government shutdown. They wanted him to block or stall the shutdown-ending bill that the Senate just passed until they could get more concessions from Republicans.
Todd Huff: What did they actually get? Nothing, really. They literally got nothing. And I’ve seen journalists—Democrat, leftist journalists, media figureheads, and so forth—asking Democrats, “Why do this on day number whatever it was, day number 40?” We’re on day 42 now of the government shutdown. The government still isn’t open, by the way—they’ve just voted to reopen it in the Senate.
Todd Huff: Now it goes to the House, as we just talked about, but it’s still not open. The clock is still ticking. Forty-two days now that the government has been shut down because of the Democrats. And so they wanted concessions, but they got nothing.
Todd Huff: They got an agreement that the Senate is going to hold a vote on making the Obamacare subsidies—I don’t want to say “permanent,” but extending those subsidies. We went through this yesterday. There were initial subsidies in Obamacare, then additional subsidies added because again, all that talk about making health insurance affordable through Obamacare—that was a made-up fantasy.
Todd Huff: You don’t have to look far to see that. They decided to create subsidies for people to tap into so that they wouldn’t necessarily know how expensive their premiums were based on the Democrats coming in and supposedly saving America with Obamacare. The only way to make it look remotely affordable was by having these subsidies.
Todd Huff: So there were additional subsidies added during COVID because the American people were suffering greatly—not just because of the disease, but because of decisions made by our government, different state governments, local governments shutting things down, making it impossible not only to go outside but to make a living.
Todd Huff: Remember, this was back in the days when they told us what you do is not—what was the word they used? “Essential.” There we go. Thanks, Oz—Oz is paying attention today. But “essential.” Remember, they said some people’s jobs weren’t essential. And I said, to the person working it, to the person providing for his or her family, that job is absolutely essential.
Todd Huff: Who’s the government to tell you your work isn’t essential? Tell them to fly a kite. Of course it’s essential. But they said no—“What we’ll do is we’ll take care of you. We’ll give you all this quote-unquote free money,” which of course was a major driver of inflation.
Todd Huff: They made this stuff up out of thin air, acting like it wasn’t going to hurt the American people whatsoever. Of course, we were in that point in time when people were panicked and they said, “You gotta do something. Send people bunches and bunches of dollar bills—that’ll fix everything.”
Todd Huff: Well, it turns out that’s not as easy to do as we think. And one of those dollar bills, or one of those series of dollar bills that people received, were subsidies for Obamacare to help during the additional hardship that was caused by COVID. Now Democrats want to extend that.
Todd Huff: That had nothing to do with the continuing resolution, the “clean CR” Republicans put forth and voted for in the House of Representatives all the way back on September 19. That had nothing to do with any of this.
Todd Huff: And so they’ve just parroted a lie up to the point that they’re still holding Chuck Schumer responsible because he couldn’t keep eight Democrats from reaching across the aisle and achieving bipartisanship.
Todd Huff: By the way, bipartisanship is usually something that’s heralded by the media and by the radical Left. I have multiple articles here. I’m going to pull up a headline and just reference it so you have an idea. You’ve probably seen these too—the New York Times used a particular phrase to describe the Democrats who voted with Republicans.
Todd Huff: The Times called them “Democratic defectors.” “The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government shutdown without the health insurance subsidies Democrats long demanded.” I mean, are we admitting now that this was the Democrat shutdown?
Todd Huff: If it takes Democrat “defectors” to end it, that means it was their shutdown all along. Think about that. They have lied to you. I’ve said on this program for a month now that this is a Democrat shutdown. I’ve had people come to me on social media saying I’m incorrect—that it’s Republicans who shut this down. Again, tell me why we need eight Democrat defectors to reopen it.
Todd Huff: It makes it sound like it’s as serious as defecting from North Korea—which, as I think about it, has some similarities. You take defectors from the Democrat Party to join Republicans to reopen the government. Remind me again, Democrats, how this is the “Republican” shutdown.
Todd Huff: Hakeem Jeffries, anyone on the Left—why did eight people defect from the Democrat strategy to shut the government down? That’s what happened. Those are the people they’re calling “defectors.” It’s wild, wild stuff, my friends.
Todd Huff: So, they are upset with Chuck Schumer. They wanted him to block, to stall, to keep these Democrats from joining Republicans—defecting, as the New York Times says. They wanted him to project a more aggressive, fighting posture: “We’re here to fight for the people, fight for your rights to have subsidized health care,” and all this sort of stuff. That’s what they wanted.
Todd Huff: They wanted them to preserve the ACA subsidies. That’s still going to be addressed, but listen—the vote is probably not even going to make it to the Senate floor because it’ll be filibustered. They’re not going to have 60 votes to achieve their objective.
Todd Huff: They wanted Chuck Schumer to show symbolic defiance. There’s nothing he could’ve done to stop this. There are things he could’ve possibly done to delay it, but can you imagine that? Can you imagine, after 42 days, saying, “Well, instead of ending this on day 43, let’s end it on day 48 or 50”?
Todd Huff: Realize how petty and ridiculous that looks to free-thinking Americans? They thought Chuck Schumer should’ve refused to allow a vote on the motion to proceed—using procedural objections or delays. They wanted him to “whip” the votes, get everyone in line.
Todd Huff: If you’re trying to get votes, there’s actually a leadership position called the majority or minority “whip.” The term means getting the votes, corralling everyone for the party position. They wanted him to do that too, to demand stronger conditions to be met.
Todd Huff: Of course, his hands were tied. They wanted him to project the energy of a fighter. Come on—this is patently ridiculous. There was nothing he could do. There wasn’t. And I’m not a fan of his, but there was nothing he could do.
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Todd Huff: My friends, quick timeout — back in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. I do want to get to Trump’s lawsuit, the potential lawsuit against the BBC for doctoring and editing his remarks outside Washington, D.C., when he told people on January 6, 2021, to “peacefully and patriotically” march to the Capitol. Trump is suing them, and I want to get into that in this segment.
Todd Huff: But first, there are a few more things I want to tie up from the first segment. Number one, Chuck Schumer—while he’s an absolutely terrible leader, he’s done bad things for both the Democrat Party and, most importantly, this country—he is not responsible for this.
Todd Huff: People want someone to blame, and that’s fine. Let there be turmoil within the Democrat Party. People theoretically thought he could refuse unanimous consent agreements. All that would do is slow the process down, which, again, would make it look like he was trying to intentionally inflict harm on people during this shutdown.
Todd Huff: He could’ve demanded full debate, the full amendment process, which would again prolong the process—only to lose. Is that what they wanted? That could’ve caused additional backlash.
Todd Huff: Again, some people wanted him to try to filibuster the motion to proceed, but he didn’t have the votes. He could’ve applied public pressure on the Democrats who wanted to end the shutdown, but what’s he supposed to do? They’d already made their choice. There wasn’t anything else he could do. He couldn’t punish the so-called “defectors.”
Todd Huff: Under Senate rules, he couldn’t stop the bill from reaching the floor once it was scheduled. There was really nothing Chuck Schumer could do—but they want to blame him anyway.
Todd Huff:
Here’s an example of some mindless gibberish being spoken again on The View, as usual. But I just want you to hear this. I know this is The View, and I know this is not to be taken seriously in one sense—right? In one sense, the things that they say, the arguments that they make are patently absurd.
Todd Huff: I get it. I understand completely. However, in the world we live in, this is the sort of stuff a lot of people listen to. A lot of people listen to this and think these women know what they’re talking about. These women don’t have the slightest clue what they’re talking about.
Todd Huff: Sunny Hostin—there’s a lot to choose from, but she and Whoopi Goldberg lead the charge of not knowing what they’re talking about. However, there’s plenty of other contenders for that title. I just want you to listen to this: how many things can she possibly get wrong? How many talking points is she regurgitating that have no basis in reality? Listen to this for yourself.
Soundbite – Sunny Hostin: "Look, let’s be clear. The Republicans run the House. The Republicans run the Senate. The Republicans run the White House. The Republicans run the Supreme Court. As far as I’m concerned, this was a choice by Republicans to cut SNAP benefits.
Soundbite – Sunny Hostin: This was a choice by Republicans to cut ACA subsidies. This was a choice by the Republicans to gut the federal government and federal employment. Democrats had nothing to do with it."
Todd Huff: I wanted—you’ve got to be kidding me. This is beyond stupid. Listen, I’m sure she might be a pleasant person, but this is absolutely moronic. Idiotic to the nth degree.
Todd Huff: Listen—on the one hand, I wrote about this. That’s one of the questions I addressed on our website under that new section You Asked For It. She said Republicans control the House, Republicans control the Senate, Republicans control the White House. As far as she’s concerned, Republicans control the Supreme Court.
Todd Huff: But Republicans do control the House. Republicans do control the Senate. Republicans do control the White House. Again, nuance and context require we explain what that means. That means they have a majority. The filibuster in the Senate—Sunny Hostin, I don’t know how to make this any simpler—you either deliberately don’t want to know this, or you’re not capable of connecting the dots.
Todd Huff: Majority means 50% plus one. In the Senate, that would be 51. Or, even if it’s 50–50, the Vice President breaks the tie. It turns out Sarah Palin was right about this years ago when she said it and was mocked relentlessly. The Vice President breaks ties. That’s how this works.
Todd Huff: Republicans, however, don’t have 60—that’s the supermajority, the level required to get things done. I’ve been through this so many times, it’s maddening.
Todd Huff: First of all, the SNAP benefits are not connected. Democrats connected them to the continuing resolution. There’s a separate piece of legislation that sets the timeline on the benefits for ACA, not SNAP. I mixed two things there. Forgive me. The SNAP benefits were only stopped because the Democrats shut down the government.
Todd Huff: Hello? This is so ridiculous. Of course this was orchestrated by Democrats. Everything she said is just 180 degrees out of whack. If it was down, she said it was up. If it was right, she said it was left. She couldn’t be more wrong if she tried.
Todd Huff: But she’s got more to say—an opposition party, she said. "I think the Democrats caved. I think the Democrats let down the American people by opening the government. I have absolutely no faith that the Republican Party will come to the negotiating table in good faith."
Soundbite – Sunny Hostin continues: "You do something like this—shame on you the first time. Do it twice, three times, four times—shame on me. Shame on the Democrats for even believing that the Republicans will even vote on it. There’s no guarantee in this new deal that there’s going to be a vote, no commitment to have a vote.
Soundbite – Sunny Hostin continues: So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this after a blue wave out of the American people saying we want the opposition. The working people want the Democratic Party!"
Todd Huff: There were a couple of elections in a couple of states—blue states—that governors’ races were won by Democrats. It wasn’t entered into after the election. The election was last week. The shutdown’s been 42 days. Can you look at a calendar?
Todd Huff: I feel dumber after listening to this, my friends. I don’t know what to say about it. It’s pathetic. It’s sad. I’ve got to take a break.
Todd Huff: Getting to the end of this segment at least—let’s set up. I’ve got two more things I want to get to that I told you about. You can go to the Stack of Stuff; there’s more articles, you can watch the remaining 20 or 30 seconds of what Sunny Hostin is babbling about here that I had to cut off.
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Todd Huff: All right—when we get back, I’ve got two things I want to do. I’m going to talk to our veterans. I may not be able to do both, but I’ll make sure I thank the veterans. So we’re going to thank and talk to the veterans really quickly.
Todd Huff: If I don’t have time for Trump’s lawsuit, we’ll table it until tomorrow or talk about it a bit in today’s newsletter, which you can get for free at toddhuffshow.com. It’s called The Inner Circle.
Todd Huff: Just go to The Inner Circle, sign up for free with your email address. I’ll talk about it there. One of those two things will happen if I don’t get to both. Quick timeout, my friends.
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Todd Huff: All right, going to have to table probably again—I’ll either talk about it in the newsletter today or we’ll talk about it tomorrow—Trump’s lawsuit with the BBC potential, what he’s announced will be his lawsuit with the BBC. But I want to spend some time talking about veterans.
Todd Huff: You know, my friends, if you’re like me, you know a lot of people out there who have served in defense of this great nation. Maybe many of you have served as well. And I want you to hear me say: thank you.
Todd Huff: There have been times in America’s history—and I think we’re in one of those times now—but I think back to the Vietnam War. There have been times when our military, our veterans, people who put themselves in harm’s way in defense of this great nation, were not shown the proper dignity and respect they deserve.
Todd Huff: If you join the military—if you sign up, whatever it is, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Space Force—if you sign up to protect this great nation, you’re not a policymaker. Your job is to follow orders. In fact, that’s one of the things they make sure you understand early on: they’re in charge, you follow orders.
Todd Huff: You’re not there to give orders. You don’t really even have an opinion. They don’t want you to have an opinion—they want you to do what the command structure has determined you are going to do.
Todd Huff: They don’t set policy. They don’t determine when they go to a certain theater, they don’t determine where a base is established, they don’t determine the rules of engagement, they don’t determine all the political factors that go into a particular situation and scenario.
Todd Huff: These men and women who signed up to defend this great nation deserve our applause, our respect, and today’s the day to give that. Today’s the day we can and should do that.
Todd Huff: This nation—freedom—has constantly been under assault. It is constantly threatened by people who want to take away your freedom. Power is a drug to people. Money and power motivate people to do sometimes incredibly wicked things.
Todd Huff: I mean, we all see this in our own lives, in our own world today. But even throughout history, we can see it time and time again. Freedom—God has given us freedom—but freedom must be defended because there are always people who want to take it away for the lust of power, control, riches, or the rewards they think they’ll get by being in charge.
Todd Huff: It takes an incredible amount of arrogance and self-righteousness to think that you, or a particular person, is qualified to be in charge of another person’s life. Our founders understood this. They understood that tyranny is always out there, that threats to liberty always exist.
Todd Huff: And so ultimately, the only way to secure those liberties—and listen, I understand, I mentioned earlier, politicians can sometimes put military personnel in predicaments they shouldn’t be in. That’s not the fault of the person who signed up. Some of these things are absolutely noble and good as well.
Todd Huff: Whatever the case, this is my point: wherever someone served, whatever their MOS was, whatever they did in the military, whatever they’re doing now—it’s part of what protects this great nation, secures our liberty, and it’s a good thing.
Todd Huff: Thank a veteran today. If you haven’t done that, I highly encourage you to do it. A lot of these folks haven’t been thanked in years. Some have, sure, but some served at times when they weren’t thanked—in fact, they were ridiculed and even blacklisted for being part of the military during some conflicts throughout our nation’s history.
Todd Huff: In particular, I think of Vietnam. But I also think—look, in some circles today, if you say you served in the War on Terror, there are people who think you’re a terrible human being. You are not. What you did—while the government didn’t always make the right decisions—what you did was fight against an abject evil.
Todd Huff: And I say thank you. This nation exists—this nation has freedom—because men and women who sign up for the armed services have stood in the path, stood in a position to protect those of us in this great nation. And I say thank you on this Veterans Day.
Todd Huff: Happy Veterans Day. I have to go. SDG.
