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Senate Republican slams own party’s closed-door meeting as ‘intergalactic freak show’

President Donald Trump has ordered senators to remain in Washington D. C. throughout the weekend to negotiate an end to the ongoing government shutdown. But negotiations even among Republicans have become fractious. That’s according to a Friday article in Politico, which reported that bipartisan talks in the Senate have appeared to sputter after an offer from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was almost instantly rejected by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) along with most of the Senate Republican Conference. That deal included a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that are due to expire at the end of 2025, in exchange for Democrats voting for the House of Representatives’ continuing resolution that House Republicans passed in September. Now, Politico reports that senators are once again at an impasse. Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-LA) was not optimistic that his colleagues would be able to hammer out an agreement by the end of the weekend.”What we have here is an intergalactic freak show,” Kennedy said after leaving a closed-door meeting with the Senate Republican Conference. When asked what senators could accomplish this weekend, the Louisiana Republican said “nothing. We’re going to be here for a long time,” he said. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), whose bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was blocked by Thune in October, was unmoved by Republicans’ apparent inability to come together on a solution to end the shutdown.”My adage is, put them in a barn and don’t let them out until they come up with a solution,” he told Politico. According to the outlet, senior members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have been assembling a three-bill package that would fund government agencies and programs for a full year, while bipartisan Senate negotiators are contemplating three separate bills to fund government agencies through next year. Senators are also pushing for legislation that would prevent Trump from making so-called “pocket rescissions,” in which the president refuses to allow money appropriated by Congress to be spent. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued it was “insane” that Trump had yet to meet with Congressional leadership to iron out a deal.”They refuse to engage,” he said. “It’s killing the country.”Click here to read Politico’s report in full.

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Private payrolls rose 42,000 in October, more than expected and countering labor market fears, ADP says

The post Private payrolls rose 42, 000 in October, more than expected and countering labor market fears, ADP says appeared com. A jobseeker speaks with a recruiter during a NYS Department Of Labor job fair at the Downtown Central Library in Buffalo, New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. Lauren Petracca | Bloomberg | Getty Images Payroll growth at private companies turned slightly stronger than expected in October, providing some hope that the labor market isn’t in danger of sinking, ADP reported Wednesday. Companies added 42, 000 jobs for the month, following a decline of 29, 000 in September and topping the Dow Jones consensus estimate for a gain of 22, 000. A revision for September showed 3, 000 fewer jobs lost, the payrolls processing firm said. A gain of 47, 000 in the trade, transportation and utilities grouping helped offset losses in multiple other categories. Education and health services also showed growth of 26, 000 while financial activities added 11, 000. Despite the artificial intelligence-fueled tech boom, information services saw a decline of 17, 000 positions. Other sectors posting losses included professional and business services (-15, 000), other services (-13, 000) and manufacturing (-3, 000), a sector that continues to struggle despite President Donald Trump’s tariffs aimed at bringing factory jobs back to the U. S. All of the job creation came from companies employing at least 250 workers. That category added 76, 000 jobs, while smaller businesses lost 34, 000. Despite the meager job growth, salaries continued to rise. Year-over-year pay for those staying in their jobs rose 4. 5%, the same as in September, while job switchers saw a 6. 7% increase, up slightly from a month ago. “Private employers added jobs in October for the first time since July, but hiring was modest relative to what we reported earlier this year,” said ADP chief economist Nela Richardson. “Meanwhile, pay growth has been largely flat for more than a year, indicating that shifts in supply and demand are balanced.” By ADP’s count, job.

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‘Dumb’: WSJ editorial warns Trump’s wild demand will send GOP into devastating trap

As President Donald Trump grows increasingly shocked and frustrated that Democrats in Congress haven’t caved to him yet in the weekslong federal government shutdown, he is ramping up demands for Republicans in the Senate to do away with the legislative filibuster the rule requiring 60 votes to pass most bills and steamroll Democrats to reopen the government without them. “Republicans, you will rue the day that you didn’t TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!!! BE TOUGH, BE SMART, AND WIN!!!” Trump recently posted to Truth Social. “This is much bigger than the Shutdown, this is the survival of our Country!”But this would be a huge mistake, warned the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board. In fact, he would deliver the whole GOP into a trap that hands Democrats far more power in the long run.”Republicans would be dumb and hurt the country by breaking the filibuster,” wrote the board. “Republicans could end the government shutdown on a partisan vote, but then what? The GOP will have taken the fraught step of breaking the filibuster for appropriations. Democrats will pound the table in faux outrage, but they’ll privately be cheering at what they’ll be able to pass the next time they control Washington perhaps as soon as 2029 when Mr. Trump is out of office. Break the filibuster for the shutdown, and it will soon be gone for all legislation too. The Senate will then operate like the House, where a simple majority rules,” wrote the board. Indeed, they noted, had the filibuster not been in place for the first two years of the Biden administration, Republicans may have been powerless to stop a parade of progressive legislation: “Bernie Sanders’s $17-an-hour national minimum wage; All of the Biden Build Back Better plan, with its huge tax increases and cradle-to-grave entitlement programs; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s bill to restructure the Supreme Court; Nancy Pelosi’s bill to nationalize election law in all 50 states on the California model; Statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, with four new Democratic Senators; The PRO Act that would repeal much of Taft-Hartley on unionization and ban right-to-work laws for voluntary union membership that exist in 26 states; [and] a national law codifying Roe v. Wade abortion standards.”Republicans may not even be able to reverse all these things with the filibuster gone when they take power next, the board wrote; “Look at the trouble Republicans are having even letting supercharged pandemic-era ObamaCare subsidies expire. The filibuster rule is often frustrating, but its virtue is that it serves as a check on passing extreme laws with narrow majorities,” the board argued in conclusion, warning, “Most Republicans understand this. But some Senators, hoping to curry favor, may start to echo the President’s short-term opportunism. The Democratic left is quietly cheering them on.”.

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