Prediction Markets Bet Big on US Government Dysfunction: Shutdown Odds Stretch Toward Thanksgiving

As of Oct. 20, 2025, Washington’s inactive stuck successful neutral—no deal, nary compromise, and the House has deed snooze again, stretching recesses to Oct. 19. On Monday morning, White House economical advisor and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC that the ongoing shutdown—what helium cheekily dubbed the “Schumer shutdown”—is “likely to extremity sometime […]