What we covered here
• The latest: Two proposals to fund the government — one from Democrats, one from Republicans — both failed in the Senate tonight. The government shutdown is now poised to slide into its seventh day tomorrow.
• White House digs in: President Donald Trump has embraced the political battle. He told CNN over the weekend that Republicans are “winning” the standoff, though quiet concerns have emerged in his orbit about potential political damage.
• How we got here: Democrats want Republicans to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies as part of any stopgap funding bill, while the GOP says the issue should wait until the end of the year. Trump has threatened waves of retaliatory layoffs in addition to the federal workers already furloughed.
• How is the shutdown affecting you? Tell us about it.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’ll support extending enhanced ACA subsides, bucking GOP party line
In a surprise announcement, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Monday that she will support extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies to prevent premiums from doubling.
“But I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” the Georgia Republican posted on X, noting she’s no fan of Obamacare.
The enhanced premium subsidies, which are set to expire at year’s end, are at the center of Congress’ battle over funding the federal government for fiscal year 2026 and ending the shutdown, which began October 1. Congressional Democrats are demanding the beefed-up assistance be renewed as part of the spending package, while Republican leaders are refusing to discuss an extension while the government is shuttered.
Taylor Greene, who has a history of challenging her party’s leaders, took a swing at House Speaker Mike Johnson and other top House Republicans.
“Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!” she wrote.
The Georgia lawmaker included an analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group, that projects subsidized enrollees would see their premiums skyrocket 114%, on average, from $888 this year to $1,904 in 2026. A 60-year-old couple making $85,000 would have to pay more than $22,600 more in premiums, on average, next year.
Sen. King says he may flip and oppose GOP spending bill over lack of health care talks
Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, told CNN on Monday he’s considering withdrawing his support for a GOP-led stopgap funding bill to reopen the government because he’s dissatisfied with how Republicans are addressing Democrats’ demands to negotiate an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
King said Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s openness to engage on the issue once the government reopens is “not good enough.”
“We need to deal with this problem. We need some assurance that they will deal with this problem. And so far, that hasn’t been forthcoming,” he said.
King is one of three members of the Democratic caucus, along with Sens. John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez Masto, who have consistently voted with Republicans in support of a bill to extend current government funding levels through November 21.
Though the Maine senator backed advancing the bill in another failed floor vote on Monday evening, he told Raju he’s not sure if he will make the same choice on Tuesday.
”I’m making my decision on a day-to-day basis based upon what I’m told,” he explained, adding that President Donald Trump should be “paying attention” to the ACA subsidies issue as many Americans will face “huge, huge premium increases” when they have to enroll in another year of health insurance next month.
How Hollywood Burbank Airport is operating without air traffic controllers in the tower
When the air traffic control tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport closed Monday night due to staffing shortages, passenger flights continued to take off and land following rules that are often used at much smaller airports.
Southern California TRACON, an FAA facility in San Diego that handles traffic across the region, took over some operations, but many aspects of air traffic control were left to the pilots.
The tower radio frequency became a “common traffic advisory frequency,” which means pilots coordinate their intentions to any other planes listening and are responsible to listen and stay clear of other aircraft.
“Burbank traffic, this is Southwest 737 (flight) 2998 departing runway 15 at Burbank,” a Southwest Airlines pilot told whoever was listening according to LiveATC.net. “Any other traffic please advise.”
Two helicopters nearby responded and said they were not in the way of the takeoff.
The procedure is used at smaller airports which do not have a control tower or during slow periods where smaller towers are closed, such as overnight.
Flights headed to Burbank were delayed about two-and-a-half hours Monday night, according to the FAA.
About 23 percent of the flights at the airport were delayed Monday, the website FlightAware said.
Union reacts: The National Air Traffic Controllers Association – which represents nearly 20,000 air traffic controllers, engineers, and other aviation professionals – said in a statement:
Government shutdown heading to day 7. Here's what to know right now
The government shutdown is expected to continue into tomorrow after more votes failed in the Senate today.
Here’s a recap of what you might have missed:
- Where conversations stand: President Donald Trump spoke to House Speaker Mike Johnson and has been in touch with Senate Republican leader John Thune, according to the White House. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested that firings of federal workers are still on the table and continued to blame Democrats for the shutdown.
- In the Senate: That all comes in the context of two more failed votes in the Senate today. Lawmakers did not advance either competing Democratic or Republican plan to reopen the government. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he did not speak with Thune over the weekend. Thune, meantime, said Obamacare subsidies — the main Democratic sticking point — are “broken.” Trump later said he’s open to a deal on health care.
- In the House: Johnson is counting on Senate Democrats to cave and back Republicans’ House-passed bill to reopen the government. The House is still out of session this week. “I want to bring the House back into session and get back to work. But we can’t do it till they turn the lights back on,” he said. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized the White House for being “radio silent” to Democrats.
- Flight and travel impacts: At least 12 air traffic control facilities are bracing for staffing shortages tonight, according to a publicly available operations plan from the FAA. Already the agency is delaying flights into three airports. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said more controllers have already called out sick during the shutdown and funding for a program that provides flights to small cities will expire on Sunday.
- Coming up this week: Trump will host Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House tomorrow for a “working meeting.” On Thursday, Trump is scheduled to host a Cabinet meeting and host Finnish President Alexander Stubb for a meeting at the White House.
CNN’s Elise Hammond, Alison Main, Donald Judd, Kit Maher, Alejandra Jaramillo, Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett, Sarah Ferris, Adam Cancryn, Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean and Aaron Cooper contributed reporting to this post.
FAA delays flights into 3 major airports due to staffing problems
The Federal Aviation Administration is delaying flights into the major airports in Newark, Denver and Burbank due to air traffic controller staffing shortages, only hours after the transportation secretary warned that the number of controllers calling out sick was ticking up.
Controllers are considered essential workers, so they must work during the government shutdown, but are not currently being paid.
As of 6:30 p.m. ET, flights into Newark Liberty International Airport are being delayed nearly an hour due to low controller staffing at the approach control facility that was plagued by repeat systems outages and controller staffing shortages in April and May.
Flights into Denver International Airport are being delayed an average of 39 minutes.
Both airports are major hubs for United Airlines, though the airline did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Also Monday night, flights headed to Hollywood Burbank Airport were delayed about two-and-a-half hours, according to the FAA.
The control tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport closed at 7:15 p.m. ET, due to staffing shortages, an alert from the agency said.
During a news conference at Newark’s airport Monday afternoon, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he did not want to see canceled flights, but the priority is safety in the U.S. airspace system.
“If we have additional sick calls, we will reduce the flow consistent with a rate that’s safe for the American people,” Duffy said.
This post has been updated with additional reporting.
Senators lament lack of progress to end shutdown: ‘It is Groundhog Day’
Democratic and Republican senators lamented the lack of progress in ending the government shutdown on Monday evening as both parties are digging in on their positions.
“It is Groundhog Day. I mean, really and truly,” Republican Sen. Jim Justice said after a vote to advance the GOP stopgap funding bill failed for a fifth time Monday evening.
“This is absolutely holding the American people in hostage, trying to get your way,” Justice said of Democrats’ demands.
Some Democratic senators criticized the lack of formal negotiations with their Republican counterparts as the shutdown enters its second week.
“There’s a lot of talk, but there’s nothing structured. That’s the problem,” said Democratic Sen. Peter Welch, who was seen speaking with Republican Sen. Mike Rounds on the Senate floor around votes on Monday.
Rounds, who has engaged in several informal bipartisan huddles with his colleagues on the Senate floor, said there has not been significant progress in their conversations.
“Not at this stage of the game,” Rounds told CNN when asked if they are making headway in talks. “But we’re still talking and still trying to explain that once the shutdown is over with, then we can really start getting into the negotiations about a lot of these issues, including all of the appropriation bills, the NDAA, and we know that there’s opportunities for amendments on all of this.”
Hollywood Burbank air traffic control tower closed due to staffing
The Federal Aviation Administration control tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport will close Monday night at 7:15 p.m. ET due to staffing shortages, an alert from the agency notes.
Pilots at the airport will use other radio frequencies to talk to controllers handling flights all over Southern California.
Air traffic controllers are working during the government shutdown but are not being paid.
At a press conference earlier today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that controllers were considering taking second jobs to make ends meet.
A total of 12 air traffic control facilities are bracing for staffing shortages tonight, according to a publicly available operations plan from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Besides Burbank, control towers at Phoenix and Denver are short staffed. Other FAA facilities that handle air traffic around Newark, Jacksonville, Chicago, Washington DC, Denver, and Indianapolis also report, so called, “staffing triggers.”
GOP stopgap funding bill fails again to advance
The Senate failed to advance Republicans’ stopgap funding bill once again in a 52 to 42 vote.
Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and John Fetterman, as well as independent Sen. Angus King, voted with most Republicans to advance the bill. As in previous votes, GOP Sen. Rand Paul was the only Republican to vote against advancing the measure.
Republicans would need 60 votes to pass the bill. That means they would need to secure seven Democratic votes if all GOP lawmakers vote in support (and eight if Paul remains opposed).
Jeffries says he does not know of “any Democrats” who have spoken to Trump on shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday that no top Democrats have spoken to President Donald Trump about the shutdown and that the White House has been “radio silent” since the president’s sit-down with congressional leaders last week.
“I do not know of any Democrats who have spoken to President Trump or his administration on this issue,” Jeffries said shortly after Trump said he had been speaking with Democrats though he declined to offer details.
Jeffries said neither he nor Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have heard from the Trump administration since their sit-down with the White House last Monday.
“If President Trump is ready to have that conversation and is ready to talk about health care and is ready to talk about the Affordable Care Act tax credits and extending them, we of course look forward to sitting down and having that engagement.”
Jeffries also criticized Speaker Mike Johnson for refusing to call the House into session this week, and for not allowing the newly elected Democrat, Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, to be sworn in.
“Why are they so afraid of being here at the Capitol and doing their job? Why don’t Republicans want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Is it the Epstein files?” Jeffries said.
NOW: The Senate is voting on Republicans' proposal to fund the government
Senators are now voting on a short-term government funding proposal from the Republican Party.
It needs 60 votes to advance, meaning Republicans would need Democrats to sign on.
Democratic stopgap funding bill fails again to advance
The Senate failed to advance Democrats’ stopgap funding bill once again in a 45 to 50 vote.
A bill to reopen the government needs 60 votes to advance.
Lawmakers will now vote on Republicans’ House-passed version that would fund the government until late November.
NOW: The Senate is voting on Democrats' proposal to fund the government
Senators are now voting on Democrats’ short-term government funding proposal.
It needs 60 votes to advance, meaning Democrats would need Republicans to sign on.
Schumer denies Trump's claim that Democrats and Republicans are actively negotiating on health care
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer denied President Donald Trump’s claims that there are negotiations ongoing between Republicans and Democrats on health care, as the government shutdown continues.
“For months, Democrats have been calling on Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans to come to the table and work with us to deliver lower costs and better healthcare for the American people,” he added. “If President Trump and Republicans are finally ready to sit down and get something done on healthcare for American families, Democrats will be there — ready to make it happen.”
Not long before, Trump had told reporters in the Oval Office: “We have a negotiation going on right now with the Democrats that could lead to very good things.”
“We are speaking with the Democrats and some very good things could happen with respect to health care,” he continued.
Schumer told CNN earlier in the day that he wasn’t in contact with Senate GOP Leader John Thune over the weekend.
What Senate GOP leader is saying: Thune said he interpreted Trump’s remarks about health care negotiations with Democrats as meaning that they can start negotiating when the government reopens, not now.
“I think the message there is, when the government’s open, yes,” Thune said. “I mean, I think there are — I’m aware of the conversation.”
This post has been updated with comments from Thune.
Trump says he's open to a health care deal, even as he criticizes "wasted" Obamacare subsidies
President Donald Trump again expressed openness to striking a health care deal with Democrats, even as he trashed the subsidies at the center of the government shutdown as “wasted” money.
“Some very good things could happen with respect to health care,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Monday. “I’d like to see a deal made for great health care.”
The president did not offer specifics as to what that negotiation could look like, instead renewing his false accusations that Democrats shut down the government over a desire to fund health care for undocumented immigrants.
He also suggested that any deal would need to be broader than the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies sought by Democrats, arguing that the current provision amounts to “billions and billions of dollars” of waste.
“The subsidies are so much,” Trump said. “We could have a much better health care than we have right now.”
Some context: Obamacare is again at the fulcrum of a bitter Washington battle, as Democrats seek to leverage the government shutdown to secure the extension of health care subsidies to prevent premiums under the plan from soaring. They hope to extend subsidies originally enacted by the Biden administration that expire at the end of the year.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that extending the enhanced subsidies would cost $350 billion over a decade and result in nearly 4 million more people having health insurance in 2035.
This post has been updated with additional information.
Senate Leader Thune: Obamacare subsidies are "broken"
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he doesn’t believe Democrats would accept a promise of a vote on Affordable Care Act subsides in exchange for reopening the government because, he said, Democrats want to guarantee the outcome of the vote, which is not possible.
Thune said there is a “mixed bag” of support within his conference to extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, and it would largely be dictated by what the White House could support.
“But certainly not without reforms. I mean, we all know the program is broken. It needs to be fixed, so that would be certainly a starting place,” he said. “But there are people out there with actually some pretty good ideas, but unfortunately not getting a chance to get heard while we’re stuck here.”
Schumer and Thune didn't speak over the weekend amid shutdown stalemate
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he did not speak with Senate Majority Leader John Thune over the weekend, as the government shutdown drags on.
“Republicans need to sit down, roll up their sleeves and negotiate with us so that we can preserve health care, fight for health care for the American people. Plain and simple, they got to sit down and talk to us,” Schumer told CNN.
Asked if this meant he has not spoken with Thune since last week, Schumer confirmed, “That is correct.”
White House again seeks to blame Democrats for potential federal layoffs amid shutdown battle
The White House again sought to blame Democrats in Congress for potential widespread layoffs among the federal workforce, telling CNN during a Monday press briefing that “this conversation about layoffs would not be happening right now if the Democrats did not vote to shut the government down.”
Though federal workers are usually furloughed during a government shutdown, the Trump administration’s threat to lay off workers en masse has marked a new strategy for the White House, which has signaled a willingness to take advantage of the shutdown to force through long-pushed for workforce cuts.
On Sunday, Trump blamed Democrats for any potential layoffs, calling them “Democrat layoffs” in remarks from the White House.
“Anybody laid off, that’s because of the Democrats,” he told reporters.
Some Republicans have raised alarms over the threat, warning firing federal workers could backfire as voters see cuts to federal programs.
Trump spoke with Speaker Johnson today from the Oval as shutdown continues, press secretary says
President Donald Trump spoke today with House Speaker Mike Johnson and has been in touch with Senate Republican Leader John Thune, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.
Trump, however, hasn’t called Democrats amid the ongoing government shutdown, she said.
Trump, she said, “is being kept very well apprised of the ongoing shutdown on Capitol Hill,” and has been “very clear” in his position.
“There’s nothing to negotiate, just reopen the government, and then we can talk about all the important issues facing our country,” Leavitt said, reiterating the president’s viewpoint.
Asked whether Trump has called Democratic senators in an attempt to resolve the shutdown, Leavitt said: “He hasn’t called specific members of Congress, not to my knowledge, no.”
For context: Senators returned to the US Capitol today tasked with striking a deal to fund the federal government and end a shutdown that has sent ripple effects across the country.
Trump told CNN over the weekend that Republicans are “winning,” and that he believes the shutdown will end on a positive note.
Government funding for flights to small cities will expire Sunday, Department of Transportation says
A program that provides subsidies for flights to small cites that otherwise might not receive air service will run out of funding Sunday, the Department of Transportation said.
The Essential Air Service program was created to ensure smaller, rural communities are served by air carriers. The DOT has “exhausted every resource” to prolong the shortfall, the department said in a statement, which includes transferring unrelated funding from the FAA as an advance.
The DOT is in the process of notifying carriers of the shortfall and alerting communities of the potential impacts, a spokesperson told CNN.
