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IRS lawyer starts a hot dog cart during the federal shutdown
During the government shutdown, furloughed IRS lawyer Isaac Stein fulfilled his childhood dream of opening a hot dog cart. From his Shysters stand, the tax attorney sells wieners along with Moon Pies and RC Cola (the duo…
Psychoactive hemp products will be banned unless Congress intervenes
Thanks to a bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown, intoxicating hemp products will be federally prohibited as of November 13, 2026, a year after President Donald Trump signed the legislation.…
Pro-lifers praise Republicans for stopping Senate Democrats’ push to expand abortion funding
Thu Nov 13, 2025 - 6:45 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-lifers are praising Senate Republicans for rejecting Democrat demands to include taxpayer funding of abortion in their deal to reopen the government. On Monday night, the…
A Senate-approved bill would ban the hemp-derived THC products that Congress legalized in 2018
Forty states now allow medical use of marijuana, while 24, accounting for most of the U.S. population, also allow recreational use. Yet the federal ban on marijuana, first enacted in 1937, remains in place, which means…
Senate passes bill to end shutdown as Democrats split over Schumer
Senate passed bill to end shutdown: Last night, the Senate voted 60-to-40 to advance a bill that would end the shutdown, with a critical group of Democrats breaking with their own party and voting with the Republicans.…
Did Democrats blow it on the government shutdown?
This week, Reason editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by the editor in chief of The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas, to discuss the end of the government shutdown and what Democrats actually…
8 Senate Democrats vote to advance bill that would end the government shutdown
We may have a deal: A group of Democrats broke with their party late last night and voted with the Republicans to advance a bill that would reopen the government, a critical step toward ending a shutdown that has lasted for…
America’s longest government shutdown shows why we must free air traffic control from politics
As of today, we are living through the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, surpassing the 35-day shutdown of 2019 during the first Trump administration. Since 1980, there have been 11 such shutdowns, most of…
Will a Mamdani victory push the Democrats further left?
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the upcoming New York City mayoral election and what a Zohran Mamdani victory could mean for both the city and national politics.…
1 in 5 kids are at risk of losing SNAP as shutdown exposes flaws in federal control
The federal government shutdown is disrupting major federal programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Now one in five children nationwide risks losing benefits because Congress has failed to…
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