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On Politics

Tue Nov 11 2025

Kathryn Palmer | Politics Reporter

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Hello, readers! Kathryn Palmer here, welcome to OnPolitics. This intro may become my new lucky charm - after wishing for a show of winter yesterday, we got a solid 10 minutes of snowflakes in New York City this morning. Now, on to today's top headlines.

Senate approves deal to end shutdown. Next up: the House

The Senate approved a deal Monday night to end the nation's longest government shutdown, sending the compromise to the House for a second round of voting.

After more than a month of stalemate, the Senate-brokered deal has put Congress on the brink of resolving a weeks-long fight that has disrupted flights and halted food stamps for millions of Americans.

The deal, which would reopen the government through Jan. 30, now heads to the House of Representatives, which is expected to take it up on Wednesday, Nov. 12, following the Veterans Day holiday.

The U.S. Capitol building is illuminated the night the Senate passed a short-term government funding bill, more than a month into the longest U.S. government shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 10, 2025.

Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters

A Politics pit stop:

•	A look at the essential, invisible jobs of air traffic controllers at the center of the shutdown flight problems
•	A handful of moderate Democrats cut a deal with Republicans to reopen the government, but others in the party are furious
•	A federal judge says states don't have to claw back November SNAP benefits, blocking USDA's threat
•	Transgender troops who served 15 to 18 years are suing the Air Force over revoked pensions they say they were promised as they were forced out of the military

Trump is asking another court to throw out a ruling against him

The president is turning to the nation's highest court in a bid to overturn a $5 million jury award he was ordered to pay in 2023 after being found liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

A spokesperson for Trump's legal team told USA TODAY he is asking the Supreme Court to review the verdict, which was upheld by a 2024 appeals court decision.

This comes as the president's lawyers are also in the process of appealing the president's 2024 hush money case, which ended in 34 felony convictions on charges that Trump falsified business records to cover up a 2016 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

A spokesperson for Trump's legal team called the 2023 case part of a Democratic "witch hunt" against the president and part of "Liberal Lawfare" against him.

It's Veterans Day today − or is it Victory Day?

News coming out of this administration feels like a mile a minute, and comments the president made months ago are easily buried in the deluge.

But perhaps you'll remember Trump's insistence a few months back that the country should henceforth refer to today's holiday, Veterans Day, as Victory Day.

Trump suggested on May 1 that the Nov. 11 holiday could be renamed to "Victory Day for World War I." In the same post, he said he wanted to rename May 8 as "Victory Day for World War II."

But federally recognized holidays must be created by Congress, so Veterans Day remains its name for now. The holiday has existed in some form or another since the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice, and has been celebrated on Nov. 11 as Veterans Day since 1971.

Reach out at kapalmer@usatoday.com.