Trump’s Breakthrough Ends Government Shutdown, Says Senator Graham

By Brian Freeman | Sunday, 09 November 2025 07:30 PM EST

Sen. Lindsey Graham stated that the government shutdown would conclude on Sunday due to President Donald Trump’s intervention. The South Carolina Republican told Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that “Donald Trump gave us a breakthrough yesterday… [by stating that] I will not accept continuing to give hundreds of billions of dollars to money-sucking healthcare insurance companies under Obamacare. I am going to give the money to the people, so they can buy better and cheaper health care, and that broke the Democrats.”

Graham added that “Obamacare’s been exposed for a scam. It’s a reward for the insurance companies at your expense, and I think the government’s going to open today, because cooler heads are prevailing on the Democratic side.” He reiterated that “the government will reopen today. We’re not going to talk about healthcare until it does.”

The senator criticized Democrats, saying “this political terrorism Democrats have been using – shut down airports, people not getting paid, SNAP benefits, you know, going away, it’s backfiring.” He accused them of seeking two actions: repealing the $1.5 trillion in savings from the Big Beautiful Bill making Medicaid more efficient and altering the prohibition against illegals receiving health care in that bill, as well as extending Obamacare, which he called “the biggest scam on the planet.”

Brian Freeman, a Newsmax writer based in Israel, has more than three decades of experience writing and editing about culture and politics for newspapers, online and television.