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(L) WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 5: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks to reporters during a news conference on November 5, 2025 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The record for longest shutdown in the U.S. Government was broken Wednesday as it entered its 36th day. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images) / (Background) US Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, speaks to reporters on day 37 of the government shutdown, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 6, 2025. US officials said the scheduled capacity for flights would be cut by 10 percent in 40 busy air traffic areas nationwide starting on November 7 as the longest government shutdown drags on. Federal agencies have been grinding to a halt since Congress failed to approve funding past September 30, with some 1.4 million federal workers, from air traffic controllers to park wardens, still on enforced leave or working without pay. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Thune rejects Democrats’ ‘tone-deaf’ Obamacare proposal for ending govt. shutdown as ‘Non-Starter’

Senate Majority Leader John Thune rejected a Democrat proposal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, dismissing a one-year extension of Obamacare premium tax credits in exchange for reopening the government as a “non-starter” that “doesn’t even get close.”

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MIAMI, FLORIDA - JULY 22: Marlo Ramirez carries slabs of beef to be prepared for a customer in a grocery store on July 22, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Beef prices are hitting records, rising almost 9% since January, according to the Department of Agriculture. Industry experts say the increase in prices are due in part to drought conditions across the country that have caused herds to shrink, while the demand for beef continues to increase. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump announces DOJ investigation into meat-packing companies, accusing them of artificially inflating beef prices

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into the United States’ top meat-packing companies, accusing them of engaging in “collusion, price fixing, and price manipulation” to artificially inflate the price of beef.

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