With the ongoing government shutdown grinding to a close, it is clear that some in the Elitist Media wanted it to go on, perhaps indefinitely. ABC is exceptionally frustrated, and it showed throughout their coverage of the shutdown.
Watch as World News Tonight anchor David Muir delivers yet another over-the-top editorial masquerading as an introduction to Rachel Scott’s report:
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, with the shutdown ongoing, members of the House have been told to return to Washington tomorrow after 53 days of recess. Those members of Congress did get paid during the shutdown. The key vote tomorrow on what the Senate has passed. Tonight, some Democrats are furious about the eight Democratic senators who gave in with no deal on extending subsidies to keep health insurance premiums from skyrocketing for millions. Tonight, hear the heated town halls- some Americans asking what was his shutdown for, if there was no movement on tackling healthcare? Here’s Rachel Scott.
Muir nakedly echoes Democrats’ frustrations with the shutdown potentially ending the way it did: with the left having nothing to show for putting large chunks of the American population into a hurt locker. Scott picks up from there, and focuses on telling victims’ stories.
There is the Wisconsin congressman riding through cold and snow in order to make the vote. There was the teacher’s family which may face Obamacare premium increases. But the one victim Scott doesn’t mention? The American People.
The second part of her report seeks to cast blame on Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the Republican Congress, for not allowing themselves to be sucked into it.
The report closes out with some SNAP scaremongering. If it weren’t for double standards, there’d be none at all.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, November 11th, 2025:
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, with the shutdown ongoing, members of the House have been told to return to Washington tomorrow after 53 days of recess. Those members of Congress did get paid during the shutdown. The key vote tomorrow on what the Senate has passed. Tonight, some Democrats are furious about the eight Democratic senators who gave in with no deal on extending subsidies to keep health insurance premiums from skyrocketing for millions. Tonight, hear the heated town halls- some Americans asking what was his shutdown for, if there was no movement on tackling healthcare? Here’s Rachel Scott.
SCOTT: Tonight, with the longest government shutdown in U.S. history set to come to an end, President Trump declaring victory.
DONALD TRUMP: The House is going to vote. And I think they’re going to vote positively. I think most people want to see it open.
SCOTT: After a late-hight vote in the Senate,
ERIC SCHMITT: On this vote, the ayes are 60. The nays are 40. The bill, as amended, is passed.
SCOTT: Tonight, lawmakers in the House scrambling to get back for a vote tomorrow. They’ve been paid throughout the shutdown. With flight cancellations and delays, Rep haven’t had to report to Washington for 53 days and have been paid throughout this shutdown. With flight cancellations and delays across the country, Republicans Rick Crawford and Trent Kelley carpooling to the Capitol, making a quick rest stop in Tennessee, writing on social media, “eight more hours to go.” If all members make it back to Washington on time, Republicans can only afford to lose two votes. Republican congressman Derrick Van Orden riding his motorcycle all the way from Wisconsin. If the bill passes,it will take time for the government to fully reopen. Agencies will have to call hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have gone without pay back to work. The deal funds the government until the end of January. Includes months of funding for SNAP and calls to rehire the thousands of federal workers the president fired during the shutdown. But what it doesn’t do is extend health care subsidies, a key demand from Democrats to keep premiums from rising for more than 20 million Americans. In Seaside California, teacher Brianna Vasquez, a mother of two, pays a $282 monthly insurance premium. That number of her premium is skyrocketing to more than $1,000.
BRIANNA VASQUEZ: We’re planning on nothing happening. I think that’s just in our best interest, plan as if they aren’t going to pass anything.
SCOTT: And at a town hall in Iowa, Republican congresswoman Marianette Miller Meeks was asked what the Republican plan is for health care.
MARIANETTE MILLER MEEKS: So we need to bring the costs of healthcare down. Unfortunately, in 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was passed —
CONSTITUENT: What’s the new plan?
CONSTITUENT: We need a better plan.
CONSTITUENT: Shut up and she’ll tell you!
SCOTT: Senate Republicans have promised a future vote on health care but it’s highly unlikely it will pass, and Speaker Johnson won’t commit to holding a vote on health care at all.
MIKE JOHNSON: I’m not committing to it or not committing to it. What I’m saying is that we do a deliberative process. That’s the way this always works and we have to have time to do that.
SCOTT: And late tonight, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries calling on Republicans to make a deal.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: You now have an opportunity to actually take some action in an area of this health care crisis by working with Democrats.
SCOTT: And David, millions of Americans who rely on the federal food assistance program SNAP had been hanging in. The Supreme Court weighing in as this shutdown is ending, extending an order that allows the tTump administration not to fully or immediately pay out those SNAP benefits for the month of November. But once Congress passes this bill and reopens the government, those benefits will start flowing again to Americans, David.
MUIR: Rachel Scott on The Hill. Rachel, thank you.
