The Stack: Inside the Senate Deal Ending the Shutdown
The Senate has advanced a bipartisan deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history—41 days of gridlock that finally broke when eight Democrats joined 52 Republicans to reopen the government.
Todd explains what this “compromise” really includes: which departments are funded through September versus January, why Rand Paul stood alone, and how a December vote on ACA subsidies became a sticking point.
With Democrats furious at Chuck Schumer and conservatives debating the limits of bipartisanship, this episode dives deep into how filibusters, continuing resolutions, and political narratives collide in Washington.
Todd cuts through the chaos, reminding listeners that democracy isn’t about shouting—it’s about negotiating, understanding process, and protecting fiscal sanity. Conservative, not bitter, as always.
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📝 Transcript: Inside the Senate Deal Ending the Shutdown
The Todd Huff Show – November 10, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: My friends, I have a question for all those screaming leftists out there. Is this what democracy looks like? I'm wondering if it is, because from my vantage point, when you have people sitting U.S. Senators reach an agreement, something that's negotiated between them, problems exist, though I certainly acknowledge. Isn't this what democracy looks like? I've listened to the left chant and scream for a long time now, saying that this is not what democracy looks like when Trump's in the White House or anything else. But isn't this what it looks like? Isn't this what democracy looks like? I'm waiting to hear from the left on that.
Todd Huff: I want to talk about what appears to be, possibly, the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. What are we on? Day number 31, today's the 10th. So the 41st day, today on Monday, the Senate's eight Democratic senators joined 52 Republicans to at least end debate and appears to be moving towards us getting something potentially passed by the House. It's got to be, of course, we'll go through all this, identical legislation. So it appears that this shutdown might be coming to an end, my friends, and we'll get into that today.
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Todd Huff (Sponsor): All right, so let's go through the facts today. This is something that the left struggles with, the media struggles with, politicians in general struggle with. So the U.S. Senate has advanced a bipartisan, bipartisan, by the way. Listen, we're told that bipartisanship is the pinnacle of existence. We're told that being bipartisan is the greatest thing that we could do as human beings. Work together, reach across the aisle. That's what was done here. Although I'll tell you, I got this over the weekend. I'm going to pull this up. This is in the stack of stuff. but I need to make sure I look at the title of this because I want to tell you what I got, the first bit of notification I received whenever I got this information, the headline here from the New York Times, what did it say?
Todd Huff: Yeah, the headline. I shouldn't say the first notification. This is a newsletter written by one of their so-called make-believe journalists over there. And the headline of the email says, Democrats defect on the shutdown. That doesn't sound like bipartisanship is this wonderful goal that we should all be trying to reach towards.
Todd Huff: Now listen, I'm not here to bash bipartisanship. I think that there's a time that we've got to find a way to accept realities and say, look, there's things we have to do and we have to get the best that we can get in a particular situation. I understand that. There's time for negotiations. But bipartisanship in and of itself is not some holy outcome.
Todd Huff: What if the other side that you're negotiating with is, I mean, literally, I know the left wants you to think that Trump's a Nazi, but what if the other side literally is a Nazi? Is it something that we should aspire to to find some sort of a middle ground with that? I mean, this is the problem we have with the, often the debate when it comes to Israel and the two-state solution and all that with Hamas and these terrorists who seek the annihilation of Israel. What's the middle ground there? What's the point that we can negotiate with that we allow for half the destruction of the nation of Israel? I mean, this stuff is crazy at some point. Bipartisanship is sometimes necessary, but nuance and details matter.
Todd Huff: Nuance and details matter, but the left and the media doesn't seem very happy with this. Again, as I've said in the New York Times here, calls these eight Democrats who joined the 52 Republicans defectors. So they passed a procedural vote 60 to 40. Now you will know if you've listened to this program, if you've followed politics for any length of time, that in the Senate, as a matter of just practical reality right now, the filibuster, unless the filibuster does not apply, which it does for virtually everything with the exception of judicial nominees, basically, Supreme Court judicial nominees, you need 60 votes to get anything done.
Todd Huff: You need 60 votes. And basically, again, I don't wanna beat a dead horse, but I just wanna make sure that it's clear because there are people out there that do not understand this. It's not in the constitution that it requires three fifths supermajority from the Senate to act. What it requires, what the Senate has required per its own rules is that in order to stop debate on a particular issue and allow it to have a vote on the floor of the Senate, you have to have three fifths of the Senate agreeing to end debate.
Todd Huff: And that is now used as a tool and it has been for some time. It's been used as a tool to throw a wrench in the gears of what the party in power is trying to do if they don't have 60 votes. And it's not easy to get 60 votes in today's very partisan, very highly political, just this very tense political world that we find ourselves in today. But there were eight Democrats that joined the 52 Republicans. Now, one Republican joined the 48 Democrats. And I had a list here of all their names and it didn't output in my final... Let me see if I can pull it up here.
Todd Huff: But the one Republican who joined the 39 Democrats was Rand Paul. So there's really three arguments here. There's the argument being made, the argument being made by Republicans, which is simply let's reopen the government and then let's negotiate or have talks about how to handle these other long-term issues. Let's open the government for a period of time and then let's talk about longer funding bills and have some debates and negotiations on the longer-term solution.
Todd Huff: That was called the Clean CR. That was what was proposed and voted on, passed by the House of Representatives back in September, the 19th, I believe. And the Republicans passed that through the House of Representatives. The Senate, because of the Democrats, would not go along with this. And because of Rand Paul. Rand Paul, he's kind of a third... He's got a third argument here, which I'm sympathetic to, by the way. But Democrats or Republicans say, let's continue things exactly as they were September 30th, and then let's negotiate.
Todd Huff: All these other things we're disagreeing about. We'll throw a deadline out there for six weeks. That was the initial discussion. And then, We will have a fight with the government open. We'll negotiate during the government being open. Democrats said, absolutely not. We're gonna shut everything down. We're gonna say, unless you extend these Obamacare subsidies that were increased during COVID, which we'll get into all the weeds here, I just wanna explain what's going on so that you can understand, because the people that you talk to, I'm telling you nine out of 10 of them don't have a clue of what they're talking about.
Todd Huff: They will act like they do. They think that they do, because they've tuned into MSNBC or some such thing and gotten the talking points or listened to Chuck Schumer or to some leftist politician or candidly to some other politician on the Republican side and they don't know the facts. The facts are is that Democrats were prepared to shut the government down. In fact, they did shut the government down over the Republicans refusing to negotiate over the extension of the Obamacare health insurance subsidies that didn't come into existence until COVID.
Todd Huff: So that's the second position. The Democrats said, we're gonna shut everybody's government down unless we get Republicans to include this in the continuing resolution. And then the third guy, the third argument, that's just one guy, it's Rand Paul, his position, he didn't side with the Democrats. He sided with them with their vote, but his position is, look, government is way out of control with its spending. No matter what we do, we refuse to accept the larger issue here that we have a spending problem.
Todd Huff: I don't think that the current levels of spending are sustainable. In fact, I don't think they are, I know they're not. And so why would I vote for a piece of legislation, a continuing resolution that continues to fund government at unsustainable levels? That's Rand Paul's position. I'm sympathetic to that. I think he's right in the long-term, but I think the realities are that we have to get there through the proposed solutions that Republicans have made thus far, or maybe through this, what looks like this is the path right now, if the government shutdown is to actually come to an end. So that's where we are with all of this.
Todd Huff: I told you that I was going to, let me see if I can find this. Let's get the list of the Democrats who actually voted for this, the eight Democrats. Democrats are infuriated by this. The left is just spitting mad today at Chuck Schumer, at these eight Democrats, as I'm trying to find, I had the list in my fingertips here a little bit earlier, and I am skimming to see if I can find, there, here it is. Here it is, I knew I had it.
Todd Huff: All right, the eight Democrats who joined the 52 Republicans, one Republican, I told you Rand Paul joined the 39 Democrats for the 40 votes against this solution. The 60 votes in favor were 52 Republicans. That's every Republican except Rand Paul in the US Senate. And then these eight Democrat senators, Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada, Dick Durden from Illinois, John Federman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire, Tim Kaine, Virginia, Angus King, who's technically an independent, but he caucuses with the Democrats. He's from Maine, Jackie Rosen from Nevada, Jean Shaheen from New Hampshire. That's how we got this negotiated settlement.
Todd Huff: But the left is infuriated about this, my friend. I mean, spitting mad, spitting mad about this again, we'll go through this and break all of this down. So what is the actual settlement? Let's go through this. So there are 12 separate appropriations bills that are needed each year, in theory, to operate our government. There's 12 groupings, 12 budgets, if you will, 12 different categories, general overarching categories that we fund to keep things going. I'm gonna read what these are.
Todd Huff: So that the, and I'm gonna tell you that the first three of these, the first three of these appropriations bills have been, according to this agreement through the Senate, Um, three of these have been funded through the end of our fiscal year. If you don't know, our fiscal year in this country runs from October 1st until September 30th. So when they say it's funded for a full year, it's not 12 calendar months. We're funding the something through September of 2026. And so these three areas have been funded according to the Senate negotiated settlement here to reopen the government.
Todd Huff: These have been opened or funded all the way through September. And I want you to listen to the last one in particular. It's interesting to me. Here we go. Agriculture, rural development, food, and drug administration. It's called AG FDA. That's kind of the little short acronym for this. That's fully funded through September 30th through this negotiated settlement.
Todd Huff: Military construction and veterans affairs. That's called milk on VA. That's fully funded through September 30th. That boosts VA medical care, base housing, and construction projects. And then the third one, the third one that they could agree upon, I tell you what, it's something else, but here we go. Legislative branch. That's of course, their own branch fully funded through September 30th covers congressional operations and staff. We'll look at that. They can get their own people paid, but they had a really hard time getting other people paid now through, through these other, other categories or areas of our overall budget.
Todd Huff: I'm going to go quickly through these other nine. These other nine are going to be funded through January 30th. So if this passes the house, which is now going to go to the house and there's going to be a fight here, prepare for there to be weeping and screaming and all that sort of stuff from the left, from the media, but if it passes, the other nine areas will only be funded through January 30th.
Todd Huff: So we're going to have a short window. We're going to have about two months or two and a half months to negotiate all these other things that have been, well, that are out there that people are going to fight about before they come to final agreements, or there will be another potential government shutdown at the end of January. So let's go through those nine areas that are only funded through January per this negotiated agreement in the US Senate. Sit with me. I know this is in the weeds a little bit, but it matters as far as our understanding of what's going on.
Todd Huff: So here we go. Defense spending, it will be temporarily funded through January 30th. That of course covers Pentagon operations, commerce, justice, and science. This is referred to as CJS. That is funded through January 30th. This covers Department of Justice, FBI, NASA, NOAA, things like that. Energy and water development. That will be funded through January 30th. Covers Department of Education, Army Corps of Engineers, nuclear programs, financial services and government, general government, I should say. Again, all these funded through January 30th covers Treasury, IRS, SEC, regulatory agencies, and so forth.
Todd Huff: Homeland security funded through only January 30th covers border security, FEMA, TSA, Coast Guard, Interior and Environment. Again, funding would be covered through January 30th. This covers borders, excuse me, EPA, national parks and tribal programs. Labor, health and human services and education. This is called Labor, HHS, and ED. Temporary funding through January 30th covers schools, CDC, public health programs. Just two more here. Hang with me.
Todd Huff: State and foreign operations. This is called state foreign ops funded through January 30th covers state department, embassies, foreign aid, and last but not least, transportation, housing and urban development. This is called THUD, which of course, HUD is housing and urban development. Transportation, you attack that T on the front. You got THUD, temporary funding through January 30th. That covers highways, HUD, and FAA.
Todd Huff: So three of the 12 are funded through September 30th, three of the 12 areas of overall government funding. The other nine are funded through September, excuse me, through January. And we have basically a clock that's going to start ticking again here to get this, you know, just to see what happens moving forward. So deep breath here. as we've gone through a little bit of the weeds. We'll get out of the weeds and we'll get into some of the specifics, what happens next, why there's so much anger at Chuck Schumer, what's going on here politically, those sorts of things as the program unfolds, but friends, I want to remind you that if you're tired of funding the agenda of the left, if you're tired of your dollars going to people and companies who then take your profits and give them to leftist candidates and leftist causes people who are causing this very problem to happen, if you're tired of that, check out freedommarketplace.net.
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Todd Huff: All right, so the agreement also requires, also requires that there's a guaranteed vote in December on whether or not to extend expanded ACA, that's Obamacare subsidies. It also provides back pay, we knew this was coming, and reinstatement for furloughed workers and prohibits new layoffs, it prohibits any new layoffs between now and January 30th. That's fair. I think that this part is fair, obviously you want people to get paid, and no new layoffs until January 30th.
Todd Huff: Okay, they bought a little time there, the government, excuse me, the lovers of big government want to make sure the government doesn't get reduced, but I think it's a fair thing to request here because these things are all on the docket, and Republicans have to find a way to deal with it, but they don't have to deal with it right now. They don't have to deal with it this very second. Of course, remember Republicans' position was very simple, let's continue funding the government at levels, we were funding it on September 30th, and let's just continue that until a deadline, again, where we could negotiate these other issues, have those figured out by.
Todd Huff: So, this is a little bit, this is not a clean CR, it's not super complicated, but there is new funding, I mean, when you pass those budgets, that's the three that were passed, there were changes to the funding as to what they were previously, so there are technically increases to the budget there, and a couple of other negotiated things, government's going to reopen once the house, if the house passes this, and then the president signs it. So this could happen fairly quickly, we will see, again, it's not a clean CR, a clean CR just for the record, as I've gone through this a lot, means that nothing new was added to the legislation.
Todd Huff: A clean CR meant we just continued what we were already doing, we have three budgets that changed, the ones that were passed through the end of the year, I think the nine budgets are going to stay the same through January 30th, so that part is technically clean, but these other requirements for a vote in December on expanding the ACA subsidies, that also makes this not a clean CR. But this is what they negotiated, so I went through the Senate vote, Democrats are angry with Chuck Schumer, I'll get to all that, I'll get to all that after the break, we'll talk about what happens next, I do want to talk about these ACA subsidies as well, because there's some misunderstanding on that, a lot of moving parts here, my friends, but the short of it is, the short of it is, it appears that the government is going to be reopening here in a few days, which is a good thing, provided again, it doesn't grow in order to reopen.
Todd Huff: Now, you could say it has a little bit with these bills that were passed, the funding through January, excuse me, through September, but this might be the best that we can get. The clean CR was still the best way to go, but that's not going to happen, that's not going to happen, because the Democrats are throwing temper tantrums, and candidly, they're not asking for a whole lot here, so we'll see where this goes, I'll break this down in more detail after the break, but I've got to take a time out, my friends, you're listening here to conservative, not bitter talk, I'm your host, Todd Huff, back in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Democrats are angry, furious. The fact that. Chuck Schumer I'm not a fan of, but I don't know what. They expected Chuck Schumer to do. Here again, I listen to the left scream. And chant and tell us that we have kings and we shouldn't have kings by the way, but they come up with some fantasy that says America has kings and Trump is trying to become a king and all this sort of stuff, they chad, this is what democracy looks like.
Todd Huff: They have eight senators that join the Republicans to find a settlement to end the government shutdown. This is what democracy would look like. We don't have a democracy. I understand. Don't pigeonhole me here. I'm just using their own language to point out. The hypocrisy and the silliness of this entire thing.
Todd Huff: This is what democracy looks like to those. Well, for those on the left, pay attention here. This is what it means. So they're mad at Chuck Schumer. They wanted leverage to again extend the ACA subsidies to make sure that those were guaranteed. And Schumer. Everything says Schumer allowed the vote. He allowed the vote. What is he supposed to do? I mean. This is something. Again. He's not going to be effective at blocking it at this point. They had the votes to make sure that. They could pull this off.
Todd Huff: So they're mad at Schumer. They just want to. Be mad at somebody. He couldn't stir up enough. Opposition to that. People have had enough. I read off the senators, they're probably getting phone calls. They're probably getting a lot of pressure. A lot of these senators are from places, from states. That they're not radically left. In fact, two of these senators are from Nevada. Nevada is a state that has been moving more and more, turning more and more red.
Todd Huff: A lot of these elections. These senate races have been razor thin. They don't want to be on the record. Here for much longer on this. Insanity and. That's a good thing, so. He is getting. A lot of pushback, a lot of criticism, which. Whatever. I'm no defender of Chuck. Schumer. I don't really care. They're saying he lost control of this. He gave Republicans a win by reopening. Without any health care guarantees. That wasn't going to happen.
Todd Huff: Chuck Schumer, by the way, voted no on this. He's not one of the eight. Who voted for. This particular settlement on the Democrat side, but nonetheless, they're angry with him for this and of course, some of them. Want new leadership and whatever. Whatever? Listen, I've shared with you that none of this is. Surprising to me. Chuck. It's interesting to me, Chuck Schumer. On my understanding of Chuck Schumer and where I would place him on the political.
Todd Huff: Continuum is, I'd put him on the liberal side, even perhaps very liberal side. The guy loves government and everything else. But I don't think he's a committed leftist. There certainly are committed leftists. In the US Senate and the House of Representatives. We've got people like AOC, Ilhan Omar. We've got people like Bernie Sanders. We've got people on the extreme radical left side of the continuum. I don't. Think Chuck Schumer is there. I don't think Nancy Pelosi is there. They're more practicing. They're more old school liberals.
Todd Huff: Than they are. Radicalized leftists. There's a lot of newer people. Of course, Bernie Sanders is not but a lot of the newer blood. In the Democrat party is further and further left. So Chuck Schumer is a guy that just. He likes his power, he likes his position, he likes. Talking about a narrative that's just completely made up. As long as it keeps him in power. Personally, whether that just simply means. In the position as the senate majority when they're in the majority.
Todd Huff: Hopefully that doesn't. Happen again or Senate minority leader. He's happy to have that position. He's happy to have some authority in the Democrat party. He's happy to continue being a senator. From. The state of New York. He's happy for all that. He's not happy to be out of power. But look, listen, a lot of these folks. For them. They still got paid. They still get the seats of honor and the praise and the accolades in the circles that they run in and they're fine with that. They're okay with that.
Todd Huff: But the radical. Base is not the radical base. Once these things to be they want. New. Entitlements in our government to be made permanent. So let's talk about that. Let's talk about this ACA vote and what the left was standing for, what they were trying to get accomplished here or what they wanted their base to think they were trying to. Get accomplished. In this shutdown. So the Affordable Care Act, which is misnamed, you can call it Obamacare, you can call it the Affordable Care Act. You can call it. The government takeover of health care, whatever you want to call it.
Todd Huff: The premium. They have premium tax credits that help. People help American citizens buy insurance on the health. Healthcare exchanges. So. That was initially part of this massive bill that was forced upon the, by the way, by the way. They had to hurry. They had to hurry, if you remember, to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2000. When was that? 2000. And ten. 2011. Whichever year that was, they had to rush because of the Scott Brown victory, which gave Republicans 41 seats in the Senate.
Todd Huff: They could have filibustered stuff. So there were some shenanigans to get the bill passed and they had to create tax credits. Why do they have to create tax credits? Well. You see, anytime the government takes something over, I listen to Milton Friedman. Milton Friedman is no longer with us. But a brilliant economist, Milton Friedman, says. Government makes things cost, on average, twice as much as it would if the private sector were in charge of it. He says that's a general rule of thumb. Sometimes it's multiple. Times that. Sometimes it's not quite two times, but it's always more expensive.
Todd Huff: When government runs it for a myriad of factors, but suffice it to say, suffice it to say that that's typically the result of there not being competition. So there's no competitive forces. There's. No force to keep prices down. There's no force. To encourage innovation. And those things. And there's lots of other reasons, but that's in a nutshell. The problem. And so the government had taken over a huge chunk of health care with Obamacare. And. In order. To. Increase in cost. They basically said, we're going to help subsidize people to pay for their insurance.
Todd Huff: And so that's how they did this. It's a wealth redistribution. Sort of scenario here. Game and listen. I'm not saying there's no problems in healthcare. I'm not saying that. It doesn't need to be discussed, but the solution. Absolutely is not Obamacare. So they have these premium. These subsidies that help people pay for their premiums. Well, during 2021, during Covid. Congress voted. The Democrat led Congress voted through the American Rescue Plan, which again is misnamed. And they extended that in 2022. Through the Inflation Reduction Act, which again is also all these Democrat pieces of legislation are misnamed because they don't do what they say they're going to do, but nonetheless.
Todd Huff: These subsidies were expanded during Covid under the auspices that, hey, we've got a financial disaster here because we've had to shut down the economy because of Covid. And so let's give people expanded subsidies. Democrats wanted. So there were initial subsidies with the passage of Obamacare. There were increased subsidies, expanded subsidies. After or during Covid, and they were extended through these so-called. Inflation Reduction Act that went through 2025. Democrats wanted to extend that.
Todd Huff: So this whole fight was thinking about this. They could have had this fight by doing what Republicans recommended, what Republicans proposed back. On September 19, and they refused. We're almost two months down the road now. These subsidies, I think, are set to expire at the end of the year. And now all they get now is a guaranteed vote on this, which. Is still going to be subjected to the filibuster. So the chances of this passing are very low, but they want to be able to go back to their constituents, to their base. And say, see, I tried to get this done, the writing here.
Todd Huff: Is kind of. Kind of on the wall. But that's what this was about. And again, there's stuff on our website at the stack of stuff if you want to read more about this and so forth, but that's. Where I got to stop. Here. I look at the clock, and I'm about to. Time this segment friends living with discomfort. It can be very tough. And prescription medications can certainly help, but oftentimes they come with a long list of side effects, not to mention the risk of dependency.
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Todd Huff: Quick time out for me, my friends. Back in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Third final segment of today. Program going through the weeds here a bit. I know it's a little bit different program. But going through the weeds. I think this is important. There's so much misinformation. There's so much emotion, there's so much rage, there's so much. Screaming at the other or from one side to the other.
Todd Huff: In fact, I encounter it. Certainly I encounter it. I can remain conservative, not bitter. People screaming at me doesn't have any impact on me whatsoever. It's just says a lot more about them than it does about me, but listen. Part of it is we don't understand what's going on. The American public doesn't. Understand. How government works. They don't understand what government should be doing. They believe the lies that their politicians tell them, look, I certainly have opinions. I try to be fair on this. I think I am fair on this.
Todd Huff: But listen, I also want to persuade people to accept. And receive truth. And that means, ultimately, first and foremost, That means accepting the gospel of Jesus Christ, but just. From a perspective of just living on this planet as a human being. It also means that we accept the truth that. We have revealed to us, have had revealed to us that we've discovered or realized. And it's true that our system of government. Is vastly superior to these governments that want to do everything for their people.
Todd Huff: That ends badly every single time that it's tried. And there's a lot of reasons for that that I can't get into, but. A lot of this just comes from misunderstandings on a lot of levels, and. There's tribal affiliations, right? We've got people who are Democrats through and through. Republicans through and through. And no matter what. A Democrat is saying Democrats will circle the wagons. Republicans can do this as well. I don't like that. I don't like that. I think that there's some problems here. We'll talk about what happens next.
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Todd Huff: Okay. What happens next here, now that this is leaving the Senate. You know, if you've taken a government class, a civics class, whatever. That what happens at this particular point in time is that it has to go back to the House of Representatives. The reason for this is that legislation must pass both houses, and it must be identical. The House passed the legislation that the Senate refused to even have a vote on. So the House now has to wait for the Senate to send in this particular piece of legislation.
Todd Huff: At that time, the House can decide if they're going to vote on this thing as is or if there will be pressures to amend this. If it's amended in any way, shape, manner or form — if you add a single punctuation mark — you're going to have to send it back to the Senate, which is going to create a whole nother set of circumstances. So moderates, mainstream Republicans, they want the Senate to accept this bill as is. Other conservatives might have a problem with this.
Todd Huff: They might want stricter spending cuts. They might want to address this in such a way where they can address all the spending at one time. That's kind of the deal here. So if the House amends the bill, it goes back to the Senate. That will delay the reopening. However, if the House passes this as is, it's going to go to President Trump for his signature, and that would reopen most — well, most of our federal government's operations — within a day or two.
Todd Huff: So that's where we are. I think this is probably going to pass the House. Who knows? In today's world, but that seems to be where the safe bet is. But again, there's not much cushion in the House. It's 219 to 213, I think. Something. Needs. 218 votes to pass the House. So a couple of votes here and there and this whole thing can be derailed yet again. We really are standing kind of on the precipice here. We don't have much room for deviation.
Todd Huff: Republicans are going to have to probably push this through. Maybe there will be some Democrats — I don't know — in the House that will push this through now that Senate Democrats — there've been eight of them come on board. There might be some, so this might pass with a little bit more cushion, but we will see. We will see if people are going to have a problem with the funding that is included in this piece of legislation, if they realize that, hey, this might be the best that we can actually come out with here.
Todd Huff: This is what we're going to pass. We'll see. I think it will pass. Time will tell. But this is going to happen quickly, my friends. So look. I know we were in the weeds today. Not always what I like to do, but I think it's necessary. Hopefully you found it helpful as well. You can always share your thoughts on what you think should happen next. I would love to hear them, but I got to go. SDG.
