Our biggest challenge is to bear witness to the suffering around us.
World Central Kitchen is feeding unpaid government workers in DC as they might people in a war zone or disaster area.
The government’s partial funding for SNAP this month means that five million Americans who are food insecure will receive nothing.
Judges are ordering the government to comply with the law. One restored ASL signers to the White House after Trump disenfranchised hearing impaired people. Another ordered changes at an ICE facility in suburban Chicago where people were crowded 100+ to a cell and forced to sleep on top of each other and next to open toilets.
We’re openly calling our government authoritarian now, but we can’t be numb to this suffering. Let’s help those in our communities who need food or shelter now. Let’s also call Democratic representatives and tell them to hold fast. Yesterday’s election results show that people are understanding the emergency. Let’s not cave on insurance subsidies and create a healthcare crisis on top of everything else.
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Today’s GovBrief News
Nearly 5 million SNAP recipients will receive no food assistance in November under Agriculture Department plan that cuts benefits more deeply than needed to drain contingency fund.
Source: CNN
November 5, 2025
Rubio and Hegseth brief Democrats and Republicans together on boat attacks for first time in two months after Warner said someone should be fired for last week's Republicans-only briefing.
Source: NPR
November 5, 2025
Judge criticizes Justice Department's "indict first, investigate second" approach in Comey case and orders all evidence turned over by Thursday following indictment Trump demanded.
Source: CBS News
November 5, 2025
Judge orders White House to immediately provide American Sign Language interpreters at press briefings after administration stopped using them in January despite hundreds of thousands of Americans communicating mainly in ASL.
Source: NPR
November 5, 2025
Key Congressional Republicans demand Chief Justice Roberts investigate federal judges who anonymously told NY Times that Supreme Court issues orders too vague for lower courts to follow.
Source: The New York Times
November 5, 2025
Armed immigration agents drive away with US citizen toddler after arresting father at Los Angeles Home Depot as grandmother waits hours at immigration office with birth certificate to reclaim child.
Source: The Guardian
November 5, 2025
ICE agents arrest day care teacher in front of children at Chicago facility despite her telling them she had valid work permit and pending asylum case.
Source: WLS Chicago
November 5, 2025
Judge orders ICE to provide bedding, hygiene supplies, and attorney access at Broadview, Illinois facility after testimony described 100 detainees sleeping on floors near open toilets.
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
November 5, 2025
Trump administration ends deportation protections for South Sudanese nationals one week after United Nations warned African nation is sliding into another war.
Source: UPI
November 5, 2025
Trump demands Republican senators eliminate filibuster to end record 36-day shutdown at White House breakfast the morning after acknowledging his party shoulders more blame following Democratic election victories.
Source: NBC News
November 5, 2025
White House open to discussing back pay for furloughed workers despite 2019 law Trump signed guaranteeing payment after shutdown ends.
Source: Federal News Network
November 5, 2025
FAA cuts 10% of flights in 40 high-traffic markets starting Friday after air traffic controllers increasingly call out during record 36-day shutdown following missed paychecks last week.
Source: Government Executive
November 5, 2025
Thousands rally in Washington day after Democratic victories to protest growing threat to democracy and rise of fascism one year after Trump's reelection.
Source: WUSA Washington
November 5, 2025