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Trump Delivers Remarks at Breakfast with Republican Senators, Nov. 5, 2025

November 5, 2025 · The White House · 0:20:45

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What happened

President Donald Trump delivered remarks at a breakfast with Republican senators at the White House on November 5, 2025, exactly one year after the 2024 election. He said the previous night’s results — in “very Democrat areas,” as he described them — were “not expected to be a victory” and were “not good for Republicans,” as he stated his reading, and said the senators would discuss after the press left “what last night represented and what we should do about it and also about the shutdown and how that relates to last night.” He said pollsters had called the shutdown “a big factor, negative for the Republicans,” as he recounted it.

The President thanked Vice President JD Vance and the Senate leadership team, naming Senators John Thune, John Barrasso, Tom Cotton, Shelley Moore Capito, James Lankford, and Tim Scott, as he thanked them. On the shutdown, he said: “We are in the midst of a disastrous Democrat-created government shutdown… That is now officially the longest shutdown in American history,” as he stated it that morning.

Why it matters

The breakfast remarks are the President’s first on-record reading of the November 4, 2025 elections and of the shutdown’s political cost to his own party — delivered to the Senate Republicans whose votes the following week’s reopening, paged in this chronicle, would require.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the President’s November 5, 2025 statement that the shutdown had become the longest in American history and his stated reading of its electoral cost. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks at Breakfast with Republican Senators” (official upload, embedded above). Remarks as delivered at the breakfast.