Teach Republicans a 'painful lesson': Shutdown tips for Democrats from a former GOP strategist 11:59

Freezing federal funds and firing en masse: Trump uses shutdown to enact Project 2025 agenda In reality, there’s no difference between the White House’s shutdown contingency plan and the agenda they’ve already put into action.

Oct. 6, 2025, 4:53 PM EDT

By Ali Velshi

This is an adapted excerpt from the Oct. 4 episode of “Velshi.”

The current government shutdown is not your ordinary shutdown — and to understand why this one is unlike the 20 other times that the government has let funding lapse since 1976, we have to go back to our library and break out a copy of Project 2025 .

In case you need a refresher, Project 2025 is the 900-page-plus blueprint for enacting an ultr

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