Cassidy Delivers Speech Calling for End to Schumer Shutdown as SNAP Benefits Hang in the Balance

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · October 29, 2025

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Opening: length and scope of shutdown

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Chair (Chair, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) opened on the Senate floor saying the government has been shut down for nearly a month and called it the longest full government shutdown in U.S. history; cited that roughly 1,400,000 federal employees are furloughed or working without pay and that 13,000 air traffic controllers have missed paychecks.

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The chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions urged reopening the federal government, warning that the shutdown — now nearly a month long — has left millions of federal workers furloughed or unpaid, SNAP benefits at risk in some states, and a drug user-fee program expired, jeopardizing approvals for over‑the‑counter treatments.

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