Overview
- The partial federal shutdown persists into November as Sen. Mark Warner urged it be resolved this week and blamed President Donald Trump for the stalemate.
- Margaret Brennan reported rising operational harms, including increased cyberattacks, unpaid bills, consular officers covering costs themselves, and delays in medication shipments.
- Brennan also reported that the National Air Traffic Controllers Association and the American Federation of Government Employees back a short-term clean funding bill, with the Foreign Service union citing unrepaired armored vehicles at high‑threat posts.
- Warner said Democrats were left out of a recent briefing on the maritime strikes and that senators still have not received a written legal opinion drafted in July as he pointed to a Norfolk‑based carrier now operating in the Caribbean.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said evidence supporting the strikes has been presented to Congress on a bipartisan basis, a claim Warner disputed on air.