What Happened Today - 6 Nov 2025
What Happened Today – 6 November 2025
The next few days of updates will be light, I had a death in the family and will be traveling to get back for services, etc..
Government shutdown chaos is alive and well, with hundreds of thousands of federal workers still left hanging without a paycheck and millions of people scrambling because basic government services are disrupted. The shutdown squeeze has reached the airports — starting tomorrow, flight capacity is being slashed by 10% at 40 of the busiest airports in the country. If you had a trip planned, expect a mess, pure and simple. Secretary Sean Duffy says this is about “easing the burden” for air traffic workers, who ironically haven’t seen a paycheck since mid-October. Let’s be honest, this is pure political hardball — the administration’s basically banking on mass travel chaos to pressure Democrats to cave in the ongoing impasse.
Meanwhile, Trump’s team tried pulling a fast one with food stamps (SNAP). Initially, they announced they’d only pay about half the usual SNAP benefits for November, waving around some contingency funds and acting like that was enough. Predictably, a federal judge in Rhode Island was not having it — today, he ordered Trump’s USDA to pony up and make the full payments by Friday, “no excuses.” The judge went in, saying the administration was “arbitrary and capricious” for dragging its feet while millions wondered if they’d eat this month. If you’re on SNAP, know this: your full benefit better be there by the end of the week, or there’s going to be even more hell to pay.
On the pharma front, Trump’s back to the old “deal maker” routine, crowing about a new agreement with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower prices on blockbuster weight loss drugs Zepbound and Wegovy. If you’re hoping to get these meds without selling a kidney, the press release says cheaper access is coming, but nobody’s seen what the final bill looks like yet.
On the legal side, the Supreme Court spent hours grilling Trump’s lawyers over whether the president actually has the authority to slap big tariffs on stuff the way he did earlier this year. By the sounds of it, even some of the conservative justices are skeptical. If SCOTUS clips Trump’s wings here, it could seriously cramp his go-it-alone trade war style.
And what’s the mood inside MAGA-land after this week’s elections? Bleak. Democrats made some splashy wins, and Trump threw an online tantrum, firing off a cryptic “...AND SO IT BEGINS” post after another GOP flop. Late-night comics are having a field day with the meltdown. His defenders, for the moment, are in hiding or just ignoring the losses and talking up the economy, which — for the record — is not exactly hitting “record highs.” Trump, for his part, is promising another round of “a bigger, better, stronger” boom that he says will blow away his first term, though nobody on Wall Street seems convinced.
On social media, Trump’s usual defenders are just parroting the shutdown talking points — blaming Democrats 24/7, ignoring federal workers' pain, and pretending this is all some elaborate masterstroke. And Karoline Leavitt at the latest briefing? She doubled down, calling the flight cuts “necessary resilience” (whatever that means) and ducked every question on why families are missing food or pay while Mar-a-Lago throws Gatsby parties.
Shutdown pain is getting worse, food stamp drama just got smacked by the courts, air travel is about to be hobbled, Trump’s approvals aren’t looking any brighter after election losses, and the drama is nowhere close to over — the “MAGA Reality Show” just rolls on.
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