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What Happened Today – October 26, 2025

Los Angeles International Airport's Theme Building and control tower, site of Sunday's ground stop triggered by air traffic controller shortages during the government shutdown. (Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Forty-two million Americans lose food aid in five days. Trump is using their hunger as a bargaining chip to force Democrats to cave on healthcare. Democrats shut down the government October 1 over spiraling ACA costs. Republicans won’t even talk until Democrats vote first and give up leverage. So today the Trump administration announced it … Read more