Trump admin live updates: Trump blames Democrats for 'massive harm' of shutdown

Trump urges midterm voters to retrieve Democrats caused shutdown

Trump urged Americans not to hide astir the harm helium said was caused by Democrats and to retrieve that erstwhile they spell to the polls adjacent year.

"So I conscionable privation to archer the American people, you should not hide this. When we travel up to midterms and different things, don't hide what they've done to our country," Trump said.

"Over the past 7 weeks, the Democrats' shutdown has inflicted monolithic harm," Trump said.

President Donald Trump signs the backing measure to reopen the authorities successful the Oval Office connected Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025.

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Trump connected Democrats to the aggregate outcomes that occurred owed to the shutdown, including the simplification and delays successful flights, national workers not getting paid and SNAP benefits moving out.

"People were wounded truthful badly. Nobody's ever seen thing similar this one. This was a no-brainer. This was an casual extension, but they didn't privation to bash it the casual way. They had to bash it the hard way, and they look precise bad, the Democrats do," Trump said.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

Trump signs backing measure to extremity shutdown

Surrounded by Republican members of Congress and immoderate members of his Cabinet, Trump signed the backing measure that the House passed earlier successful the evening.

Trump continues to onslaught Democrats for the shutdown, saying the bulk of them were blessed to ticker the American radical “suffer” portion they tried to appease their extremist near base.

Speaker Johnson said he's 'very angry' implicit Senate telephone grounds proviso successful bill

Speaker Mike Johnson, astatine a quality league pursuing the authorities backing ballot connected Wednesday night, said helium spoke to Senate Majority Leader John Thune astir his absorption to the Senate phone grounds provision that was tucked into the backing package.

The proviso allows senators to writer the authorities if their telephone records are investigated without notifying them.

Eight Republican senators had their telephone records subpoenaed by peculiar counsel Jack Smith arsenic portion of his probe into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The proviso would let them to question hundreds of thousands of dollars successful damages.

“We've had a large moving narration and a bully friendship. He's a trustworthy, honorable broker, and that's wherefore I was truthful amazed erstwhile we recovered retired astir that provision,” Johnson said of Thune. “I was precise aggravated astir it. I was and a batch of my members called me.”

“I deliberation helium [Thune] regretted the mode it was done,” Johnson added. “And we had an honorable speech astir that. I didn't inquire him for immoderate committedness astatine that clip due to the fact that I had a batch connected my sheet today.”

He reiterated that the House volition ballot connected a standalone measure to repeal the proviso successful the Senate measure aboriginal adjacent week nether suspension, which requires a two-thirds majority.

“I deliberation that was mode retired of line. I don't deliberation that was a astute thing… and the House is going to reverse -- we are going to repeal that, and I'm going to expect our colleagues successful the Senate to bash the aforesaid thing,” helium said.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller and Fritz Farrow