The Senate is a step closer to ending shutdown as impacts to air travel and SNAP benefits continue

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed rising health care premiums on Republicans, arguing they will “own this health care crisis,” after eight members of his own caucus agreed to a deal to reopen the government without a concrete solution to bring down health care costs.

“The American people have now awoken to Trump’s health care crisis. Health care is once again at the forefront of people’s minds; people now see their premiums are about to skyrocket,” said Schumer.

He also reiterated his opposition to the deal negotiated by his Democratic colleagues.

“Democrats demanded that we find a way to fix this crisis, and quickly, but Republicans have refused to move an inch. So, I cannot support the Republican bill that’s on the floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s health care crisis,” Schumer added.

“Doing nothing is unacceptable, but that’s the choice the Republican side made in obeisance to Donald Trump. Republicans now own this health care crisis. They knew it was coming. We wanted to fix it, Republicans said no, and now it’s on them.”

The proposed Senate deal to end the government shutdown includes a requirement that would necessitate that the Justice Department and FBI notify the Senate when a lawmaker is under investigation and if their personal information is being subpoenaed.

The language, tucked into one of the appropriations bills to be voted on this week, comes after Senate Republicans released FBI records related to an investigation called Arctic Frost, which pertained to the fake elector scheme from 2020, where allies of President Donald Trump pressured GOP electors to register electoral college votes for Trump from states that former President Joe Biden won.

Senate Republicans accuse former special counsel Jack Smith and FBI leaders of having political motives for obtaining phone records of nine GOP lawmakers with grand jury subpoenas.

The records contain data from four days surrounding the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. The records do not include the content of calls. Smith has said the subpoenas were part of routine investigations.

The proposed language explicitly lays out the various situations where federal investigators will be required to notify Congress, including when personal electronic records of senators is subpoenaed, when a senator is a target in a criminal investigation, and when data from a Senate office is needed.

It also says that any senator who is not notified about their data being used in an investigation or that they are the target of an investigation may file a lawsuit saying that investigators did not comply with federal law.

A person checks the status of their flight on a departures board at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday.

Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s directive set last week, major airlines have preemptively called off flights Tuesday.

The FAA’s emergency order calls for airlines to reduce operations at 40 selected airports by 6 a.m. ET November 11 by 6%. By 6 a.m. ET November 13, airlines must reduce operations by 8% and by 6 a.m. ET November 14, operations must be reduced by 10%.

The air traffic control tower rises above Los Angeles International Airport on November 6.

It was a case of dueling transportation secretaries Monday, after President Donald Trump this morning demanded that all air traffic controllers “get back to work, NOW,” pledging to punish those who don’t and reward those who have worked without pay through the record-long government shutdown.

The secretary of the Department of Transportation, Sean Duffy, posted on social media that he agreed with his boss that air traffic controllers need to go to work, focusing on the president’s comments on providing financial bonuses as a reward.

Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg — Duffy’s predecessor who served under President Joe Biden — focused on Trump’s threats to air traffic control workers.

“The President wouldn’t last five minutes as an air traffic controller,” Buttigieg posted. “And after everything they’ve been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business sh*tting on them now.”

Some context: After the worst weekend for air traffic control staffing since the shutdown began, delays due to staffing problems were already reported Monday morning, despite a potential deal to end the government shutdown.

Air traffic controllers, like other “excepted” federal workers such as federal police and civilian military employees, are required to work through the government shutdown despite not being paid.

Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva attends a press conference on Capitol Hill October 21.

Speaker Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona this week when the House returns for a funding measure to reopen the government after a weekslong stalemate, according to a source familiar with the plans.

Grijalva was elected September 23, but Johnson refused to swear her in until Senate Democrats agreed to reopen the government. That delay drew fierce scrutiny from congressional Democrats, who pointed to other instances in which lawmakers were sworn in during shutdowns.

Johnson repeatedly said he would officially swear in Grijalva when the Senate passed a funding deal and required the House to return. The swearing-in is expected to take place after the House gavels in but before a possible vote on government funding.

Grijalva said in a statement later Monday that she plans to travel to Washington, DC, after reports that Johnson would swear her in when the House returns to session to vote on the Senate’s government funding deal.

“While I am eager to get to work, I am disappointed that one of my first votes will be on a bill that does nothing to protect working people from skyrocketing premiums, loss of health coverage, or do anything significant to rein in Trump’s abuse of power,” she said.

Some context: Once Grijalva is sworn in, she is expected to provide the final signature necessary to bypass leadership and force a vote on compelling the release of files in the Jeffrey Epstein case. But that will not be immediate. Once she officially becomes the 218th lawmaker to support the measure, it will take at least seven legislative days before it can be brought to the floor, and House leaders can take up to two legislative days before putting it to a vote.

This post has been updated with additional details.

American Eagle and American Airlines planes sit at gates at LaGuardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York, on Sunday.

American Airlines operations chief David Seymour told airline employees the shutdown’s impact was “simply unacceptable,” after the worst weekend for air traffic controller staffing shortages prompted nearly 1,400 cancelations between the carrier’s mainline and regional operations.

“This is simply unacceptable, and everyone deserves better,” Seymour wrote.

In total, he said, American’s mainline and regional operations saw 57,000 delay minutes attributed to air traffic control, impacting almost a quarter of a million passengers.

He doubled down on safety, stating the airline will continue to comply with the directive airlines received from the Federal Aviation Administration last week, which decreases capacity at 40 US airports gradually up to 10% this week. He told workers the airline expects “continued cancellations and delays in addition to the FAA-required reductions.”

American Airlines is in “regular conversations with government leaders in Washington, DC, Seymour said, but many steps are ahead despite Sunday night’s progress on a deal.

A board shows flight delays and cancellations at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Monday.

While a shutdown deal is looming in the background, many travelers may be wondering when air travel will bounce back.

On Sunday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy told CNN air traffic controllers were retiring at a rate of four per day before the shutdown. Now, it’s up to 15 to 20 per day, as the essential workforce sees its second $0 paycheck this week.

Controllers are required to show up to work but are not being paid during the shutdown, as are Transportation Security Administration workers.

“It’s going to be harder for me to come back after the shutdown and have more controllers controlling the airspace,” Duffy said. “So this is going to live on in air travel well beyond the timeframe that this government opens back up.”

While it is unclear whether the Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration will press on with reducing capacity beyond last week’s directive, which was scheduled to gradually reduce flight operations up to 10% this week, airlines have preemptively canceled many flights through Wednesday.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a news conference on Monday.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday vowed House Democrats would continue to oppose the spending bill that advanced in the Senate this weekend and defended Chuck Schumer’s handling of the episode.

“As House Democrats, we know we’re on the right side of this fight, the right side of the American people, and we’re not going to support (a) partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of the American people, and we’re going to continue the fight to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,” he said at a press conference at the Capitol.

Jeffries defended his counterpart in the Senate, Minority Leader Schumer, who opposed the deal, but is still facing backlash within the party.

Asked Monday whether he believed Schumer is effective in his job and whether he should keep his role, Jeffries responded, “Yes and yes.”

He later said, “Listen, Leader Schumer and Senate Democrats over the last seven weeks have waged a valiant fight on behalf of the American people, and I’m not going to explain what a handful of Senate Democrats have decided to do. That’s their explanation to offer to the American people.”

Jeffries noted House Democrats would meet as a caucus Monday and expected to receive a presentation on the funding bill from Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democratic appropriator in the House.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters as he walks to the Senate floor on Monday.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he hopes his chamber can pass the compromise government funding package within “hours,” as leadership sorts through whether any lawmakers will hold up the process.

“All of us, Democrat and Republican who voted for last night’s bill are well aware of the facts, and I am grateful that the end is in sight, but I would encourage every member of this body, Democrat or Republican, pro-bill or anti-bill, not to stand in the way of ever being able to deliver the coming relief quickly. The American people have suffered for long enough,” he said.

Thune urged his colleagues not to “pointlessly drag this bill out” so the House can take it up quickly and send it to President Donald Trump’s desk to reopen the government.

The GOP leader told reporters that his team is “waiting” to hear what Democrats will ask for in order to reach a timing agreement to move the bill to the floor.

“I don’t think it’s in anybody’s best interest to drag this out. So hopefully we’ll be — that would be the best outcome, I think, to get it done,” he said.

Asked about the potential that Sen. Rand Paul, the only Republican who consistently voted with Democrats to block a short-term funding package, might hold up the process over a demand on an amendment related to agriculture appropriations, Thune responded: “We will cross that bridge when we come to it. When we hear from the Dems about whether or not they’re ready to move, then we’ll figure out the rest of it with our objector.”

From top left: Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez Masto. From bottom left: Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan and Tim Kaine, with independent Sen. Angus King.

A group of Democrats and one Democratic-aligned independent helped clinch an agreement to end the government shutdown, saying they had secured a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies at the center of the standoff.

Here’s a look at some of those lawmakers, none of whom are up for reelection in next year’s midterms, and their rationale for ending the shutdown:

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Reports of staffing issues at Federal Aviation Administration faculties has gone up to 17 for the day Monday, according to the latest publicly available operations plans.

New delays are reported for flights arriving or departing Nashville of 30 minutes. The tower there is short-staffed until 1:30 p.m. ET. Las Vegas is also reporting delays averaging 45 minutes, according to FAA advisories.

Delays for flights headed to Phoenix averaging nearly an hour. The TRACON, which controls flights approaching or departing the city, is short-staffed until 5 p.m. ET.

Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport also has a short-staffed tower until 3 p.m. ET and is reporting delays for arrivals and departures of more than half an hour. The FAA TRACON for Chicago is also without their normal number of controllers today. The city is getting hit with a snowstorm today which has affected air travel.

An earlier ground stop was lifted for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, but delays are likely to continue. The DFW tower is short-staffed until 2 p.m. ET and the Air Route Traffic Control Center there, which deals with flights at high altitudes, is short-staffed until 1 p.m. ET.

TRACONs in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, New York, Newark, Orlando and two parts of Southern California are also short-staffed and some delays are expected.

Two parts of the Air Route Traffic Control Centers in Jacksonville and one in Oakland also report being understaffed Monday.

There were 146 staffing problems reported from Friday morning to Sunday night, making it the worst weekend since the start of the shutdown. There have been 607 reports of short staffing since October 1, more than six times as many as were reported on the same dates last year.

House Speaker Mike Johnson walks to the podium before he speaks to reporters on Monday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans that he is hoping to vote on the Senate’s deal to end the government shutdown on Wednesday, according to a source on Monday’s House GOP conference call.

Johnson also would not commit to holding a separate vote on the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, according to a separate source on the call.

The Wednesday projection from Johnson is to help members get back to Washington, DC, from their districts amid increasing flight delays and cancellations. It is not official yet.

The House would only vote Wednesday if the Senate finished their work before then.

The White House on Monday threw its support behind a Senate plan to reopen the government, calling the funding deal a “positive development” toward ending the record-long shutdown.

The endorsement comes a day after eight Democratic senators joined Republicans to advance a measure funding the government into January in exchange for a promised vote to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The Senate is expected to pass the funding bill in the coming days, setting up a subsequent vote in the House that could end the shutdown as soon as this week.

Trump and Republicans have opposed continuing the ACA subsidies at the center of the shutdown negotiations, and GOP leaders have refused to guarantee that the extension measure will receive a similar vote in the House.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen speaks with CNN on Monday.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, one of the Democrats who last night voted in favor of a funding bill to end the government shutdown, responded to fellow Democrats who have criticized the group for siding with Republicans on legislation that does not include a guaranteed extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.

“Staying in a shutdown mode was not getting us anywhere, and they need to train their fire on the people who are responsible — that’s President Donald Trump, it’s Speaker [Mike] Johnson, and it’s the Republicans who have blocked every attempt to get health care. We need to be working together,” Shaheen said on CNN News Central.

Some Democrats have called out Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for failing to keep Democrats united, including Rep. Ro Khanna, who said Schumer is “no longer effective and should be replaced.”

Shaheen addressed those critics in an earlier appearance Monday on CBS Mornings: “House members who are critical should stay focused on what they can do in the House to ensure that we have a vote on health care,” she said.

The New Hampshire senator added, “What this agreement is going to do is it’s going to force Speaker Johnson to bring the House back in. It’s going to force him to come back in and to deal with health care and all kinds of other issues.”

Johnson has not said if he would bring a bill extending health care subsidies to the House floor.

Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said he will take “take anything that recognizes these hardworking men and women,” when asked during a news conference Monday for his response to Trump saying he would recommend a $10,000 bonus for air traffic controllers who did not take off work during the shutdown.

Daniels said he is willing to work with the Trump administration “on any issues that are out there.” However, Daniels also insisted he did not want air traffic controllers to be used as political pawns.

“Air traffic controllers have continued to show up during the shutdown,” Daniels said. “They’ve endured the longest shutdown in American history, and every single day they absolutely, not only deserve their pay, they deserve to be recognized for what’s going on.”

Sen. Angus King speaks with CNN on Monday.

We’re hearing from a senator who caucuses with Democrats and broke ranks to advance a funding measure to potentially end the government shutdown.

Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine said he voted with Republicans because Democrats’ goals were stalled.

King said that the Democratic strategy at the beginning of the shutdown was two-fold: to stand up to Donald Trump and bring the Republicans to the table to negotiate an end to the “drastic increases” to the Affordable Care Act premiums.

“The problem was, after over 40 days, neither of those goals was being accomplished. And in the meantime, a lot of collateral damage was happening. People’s lives were being hurt,” he explained on CNN’s “The Situation Room” this morning.

“And so the question I was wrestling with is, if the tactic isn’t working and there were no prospects that it was going to work, then let’s move on, not make a lot of other people suffer in order to get a goal that wasn’t attainable,” King said.

King went on to discuss the benefits of the current deal, including “three appropriations bills” that he said weren’t in the “original discussion.” He noted that one of them related to agriculture would keep SNAP benefits “safe” until next year.

He added that Senate Majority Leader John Thune has also agreed to bring a bill drafted by Democrats on Affordable Care Act subsidies to the Senate floor for a vote. “Historically, that doesn’t happen,” King said.

He said while the chances of Republicans voting for the extension of subsidies are low, yesterday “the chances were zero of getting anything on the ACA.”

Asked if he believes the government will reopen this week, King said, “I do.”

An aircraft controller works in the tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on November 7.

President Donald Trump demanded Monday that all air traffic controllers “get back to work, NOW,” warning that those who don’t would face penalties while promising bonuses for those who have worked during the government shutdown.

“Anyone who doesn’t will be substantially ‘docked.’ For those Air Traffic Controllers who were GREAT PATRIOTS, and didn’t take ANY TIME OFF for the ‘Democrat Shutdown Hoax,’ I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, going on to add that those who didn’t work “will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record.”

After the worst weekend for air traffic control staffing since the shutdown began, delays due to staffing problems were already reported Monday morning, despite a potential deal to end the government shutdown. Controllers are required to show up for their job during the shutdown but are not being paid.

Trump’s own Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said controllers were considering taking second jobs to make ends meet. He had previously cited controllers talking about driving for rideshare companies like Uber or delivering food on DoorDash to pay bills.

Trump on Monday also urged any controllers who wish to leave to do so, without “payment or severance of any kind,” adding that they would be replaced by “true patriots.”

“For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU,” Trump wrote.

“If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so, with NO payment or severance of any kind! You will be quickly replaced by true Patriots,” he added.

National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Nick Daniels holds a news conference in Washington, DC, on Monday.

The leader of the labor union representing air traffic controllers called on Congress to end the government shutdown as soon as possible, warning that added stresses and pressures threatens the safety of the flying public.

“The fatigue has led to the erosion of safety and the increased risk every day that this shutdown drags on,” Nick Daniels, President of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said at a news conference Monday. “If you want to know what the real fallout of this shutdown is, it’s not a budget line, it is the smallest and the most dangerous shift of all– when the most disciplined safety workforce in America is forced to think about survival instead of public safety.”

More air traffic control staffing problems were reported this past weekend than any other weekend since the start of the shutdown, according to a CNN analysis of Federal Aviation Administration operations plans. Air traffic controllers must work without pay during the shutdown, and have now received two $0 paychecks. Some workers are calling out.

“Air traffic controllers must show up day in and day out, fully prepared to handle the stress, pressure and the weight of their responsibilities to the American flying public and their safety…” Daniels said. “But now they must focus on child care instead of traffic flows, food for their families instead of runway separation.”

A store in New York displays a sign accepting Electronic Benefits Transfer cards for SNAP purchases for groceries on October 30.

The Trump administration told the Supreme Court today that it will continue to fight to withhold full food stamp benefits to states during the government shutdown, keeping in play a high-profile case that would likely be dismissed if federal agencies are reopened.

The Trump administration is fighting a lower court order that required it to use $4 billion from another fund to full pay for SNAP benefits. On Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson halted that court order temporarily – effectively allowing the administration to pay reduced benefits for a few days while courts consider the fast-moving case. Those reduced payments are being paid for with separate contingency funds.

Two major developments took place over the weekend: An appeals court in Boston upheld the lower court order that required the full payments to be made. And the Senate moved toward an agreement that could end the historic shutdown.

What may happen next: For now, Jackson’s order blocking the full payments remains in effect – despite the appeals court ruling – through Tuesday night. If the government shutdown is not ended by then, Jackson could extend her order, or the full Supreme Court could decide what to do with Trump’s emergency request. If government funds begin flowing again by Tuesday, then the appeal pending before the Supreme Court would likely be dismissed as moot.

“That proposal, if ultimately adopted by both Houses of Congress and signed by the president, would end the shutdown and moot this application,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court in his letter.

But for now, Sauer said in the letter, the administration will continue to fight to withhold the full benefits.

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on November 6.

It’s a busy day in Washington, DC, following last night’s breakthrough vote in the Senate, where a funding measure advanced and put Congress on a path which will potentially end the longest government shutdown in US history.

Here’s what’s happening at the White House, according to the president’s schedule, and on Capitol Hill:

We’ll keep you updated on this throughout the day, stay with us.

CNN’s Mostafa Salem contributed to this post.