Transportation Secretary Duffy: What are we fighting over? What is the issue that Democrats want addressed? It would be one thing if we knew that, that would be fine, but I don't know what the fight is over (Democrats want to protect health care for millions of Americans)

Sen. Markey: Last weekend, I met with Jeff, who is fighting stage 4 lung cancer. He pays $35,000 a year for an affordable care health care plan. If he can't keep that insurance plan, he will have to pay $300,000 a year. Jeff does not have $300,000. These people are afraid, and they're angry.

Sen. Warren: Trump tweeted 7 times in one day about his brand new marble bathroom at the White House, while Americans turned to crowdfunding to pay for their health care bills. Trump hosted a Great Gatsby themed party while he turned off food assistance for millions of Americans.

Sen. Sanders: For the first time ever, the majority party in the Senate is refusing to negotiate. It is their way or the highway. And to make the situation even more absurd, you got a Speaker of the House who has now given his members a 6 week paid vacation

Sen. Blumenthal: We cannot afford to go back to the days when preexisting conditions were a pretext for denying health care. If someone had a history of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, depression, pregnancy, insurers could force patients to pay more or refuse to offer them coverage at all

Sen. Schiff: One of my constituents wrote to me said, 'My insurance plan is $752 per month, and using most but not all of the tax credit, my monthly premium is $200 per month. I'm currently single and retired. If all the credits go away, this will wipe me out, and I will likely go without insurance'

Rep. Garcia: It is outrageous that Trump is giving out pardons, and is now saying he didn't know anything about how the pardon happened, to someone that pled guilty to serious financial crimes. Someone who then is dumping considerable amounts of money to the Trump family.

Sen. Blunt Rochester: We have something that is plain and simple and will lift up America. And that is the opportunity to both open the government and restore people's health care. It's a sad day in America when people have to choose between health care and housing, or their health care and food

MSNBC fact checks Trump's claims that Walmart Thanksgiving bundle is cheaper this year: "Yes, it's cheaper, but it has less stuff in it this year. This bundle doesn't have onions, celery, sweet potatoes, chicken broth, poultry seasoning, muffin mix, marshmallows, whipped topping or pecan pie."

Sen. Peters: Democrats are offering today a straightforward compromise. If Republicans accept this, we can open the government today. All we have to do is have a one year extension of the existing law dealing with tax credits. Over the next year, we can figure out a long term solution

Sen. Schumer: Democrats would like to see an end to this shutdown. We would like to offer a simple proposal that would reopen the government and extend ACA tax credits simultaneously. Then, have the opportunity to negotiate longer term solutions to health care costs. Let's do all three.

Reporter: Farmers' Almanac in Maine announced that its 2026 edition will be its last. The 208-year-old publication cited the growing financial challenges of producing and distributing the book

Hegseth: To the men and women of this department who work on acquisition, you are not our enemies in this effort, but you are our allies. You are Obi-Wan Kenobi, you are our only hope.

Hegseth: The Department of War is, of course, big time supportive of profits. We are capitalists, after all

Leader Jeffries: It's incredible to me that Trump and Republicans have decided to weaponize hunger by unlawfully withholding SNAP benefits from 42 million Americans. This is no surprise when you consider that earlier this year, Republicans already enacted the largest cut to SNAP in American history

Reporter: A new report shows 150,000 job cuts announced in October. That's a 175% increase from the same time last year, 183% higher than what we saw just a prior month in. This is now the highest job loss in October since 2003

Fox: Prices are up in the United States. For coffee, it's up almost 20%. Utility, up 11.7%. Electricity is up 5.1%. Vehicle repair, up 11.5%

Trump's Transportation Secretary: I've done all I can to minimize disruption in the airspace (He cancelled 10% of flights at major airports)

Federal worker facing her 3rd missed paycheck since the Republican shutdown began: "It feels like a punch in the gut. You know it's coming, and you brace for it, but it's still a punch in the gut."

Trump: The word is electricity, believe it or not

Trump: We did a great job on groceries and affordability

Trump: I watched that election, which I was not much involved in. I didn't support Virginia, the candidate. Didn't do a lot of support for the other candidates.

Trump: We are the victors on affordability

Q: You said last night you didn't want to talk about affordability. Trump: When did I not want to talk about it? I talk about it all the time.

Trump: It was a con job. Affordability, they call it. It was a con job by the Democrats.

Thune: Democrats are fighting for a fraction of a fraction, for a tiny percentage of the small percentage of Americans who are on Obamacare.

Trump: I have a bigger heart than anybody

Trump: I feel that we're gonna get the Russia/Ukraine war ended in the not too distant future

SNAP recipient: Rather than myself having like a full plate of food along with my kids, I'm making sure that their bellies are full. I may have less or I may not eat what they are eating, just for the sake that they are getting enough. It feels like I'm failing them. I'm trying to do all that I can

Grocery store employee: At least 45% of our customers rely on food stamps. We're seeing less of their faces as of recently. They're buying things that they can throw in their freezer and stretch towards the end of the month, because we don't know what's gonna happen

New photos show Trump falling asleep during his announcement in the Oval Office yesterday.

Top Trump econ advisor claims if people lose their jobs to AI, it will be "much, much faster" to find a new one because AI is a "really great coach"

SNAP recipient: I've been disabled since birth, so I rely on food stamps and Social Security to survive. I've been struggling. It's been really hard. I've literally been eating spaghetti for 4 days because it's all I have in my apartment.

Fox: This year's holiday hiring is going to be at the lowest level in 15 years. Retailers will hire between 265,000 and 365,000 seasonal employees. That compares with 442,000 last year. Why the slowdown? This is indicative of a softer job market

Top Trump econ advisor: I think that Secretary Bessent wisely said we're starting to see pockets of the economy that look like might be in a recession

Consumer sentiment has fallen for the fourth month in a row, reaching the second-lowest level ever recorded. 70% of consumers think US economic policy is "poor."

Coal miners speak out after the Trump administration removed black lung protections: "They’re doing everything they can to hurt the working man. They ain’t worried about the miners or people in West Virginia or coal miners anywhere. All they’re worried about is the almighty dollar in DC."

Dr. Oz: If you can get back healthy enough that you can work a few extra years, this is worth trillions of dollars to the US economy.

Parent speaks out after daycare teacher is arrested by ICE: "We cannot honestly fathom that this is now a reality. That we have to be afraid. That the federal government is attacking our community, that they're coming into our schools and attacking those who are taking care of our babies."

Rep. McGarvey: This is the first time we've ever had a shutdown that the Speaker of the House has not had House Republicans come back. That matters because we're not running into each other in committees, in the hallways, or in the House gym, where we talk, where we figure things out.

Host: More than 800 flights canceled, and that number is going to rise. The major airlines are scrambling as the Trump administration begins slashing air traffic at 40 airports across the country, all due to the record long government shutdown that is now in day 38.

Traveler is forced to drive from New Jersey to Utah after the Trump administration cut 10% of all flights: "From what I hear from the airline counters and TSA, they literally said to me, if I were you, I wouldn't travel over the next 3 days, because they think it's going to get worse."

The Republican government shutdown has entered its 38th day, surpassing the record for the longest shutdown of all time. The previous record was set during Trump's first term.

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 38th day. She holds the record for the longest wait to be sworn in of any special House election winner in decades.

Trump: Our groceries are way down. Everything is way down. So I don't want to hear about the affordability.

Pentagon Press Secretary: In terms of the press memo that we implemented, I think unfortunately there's been a lot of misinformation out there about it. It was not anything draconian or crazy. (Even Fox News refused to sign it)

Q: There is this significant buildup of military forces in the region. There are public threats by Trump to launch attacks. How should Americans interpret that? Pentagon spokeswoman: This is historic. We're used to seeing these aircraft in the Middle East, not necessarily in our backyard.

Host: While the National Guard was originally sent to DC to quell alleged violence, officials said troops had cleared 1,150 bags of trash, spread 1,045 cubic yards of mulch, removed 50 truckloads of plant waste, cleared 7.9 miles of roadway, painted 270 ft of fencing, and pruned 400 trees

Grand Theft Auto VI has been further delayed as Trump’s economy continues to crater.

SNAP recipient: There's 5 of us in the household right now. My mom gets $25 in food stamps a month. There's shortage everywhere for everybody. We try to help, like what we don't eat we pass on to another family member. But how do you get off the system when there's no jobs available right now?