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Yesterday — 8 October 2025Main stream

Health Care Politics Bolster Democrats in Shutdown Fight

Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats’ spines as they demand a subsidy extension.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, with other Democratic senators at the Capitol on Tuesday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Shutdown Politics Has Republicans Singing Government’s Praises

7 October 2025 at 06:27
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

A Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago last week on the first day of the government shutdown.
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