The Senate is voting on the first steps to end the 40-day government shutdown Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, angering many in their caucus who wanted to continue the fight.
The group of three former governors — New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan and Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine — said they would vote to reopen if the Senate passed three annual spending bills and extend the rest of government funding until late January. Senate Majority Leader John Thune endorsed the deal Sunday night and called an immediate vote to begin the process of approving it.
The deal would also include a future vote on the health care subsidies, which would not have a guaranteed outcome, and a reversal of the mass firings of federal workers that have happened since the shutdown began on Oct. 1. The full text of the deal has not yet been released.
Looking like Dems are going to give up, and not only that, but capitulate on the health care subsidies they supposedly really, really give a shit about.
This is why I call them collaborators.
If you aren’t already, save every dollar you can, because capitulation only makes Donald’s despotism worse, and we haven’t yet reached the depths that motherfucker can sink to.
I hate the collaborator take. Now if I could only find evidence to prove you wrong.
I think there was never a winning solution for bottom 90%
Well that’s just the Senate. If it passes, we have to get the House on board. Then POTUS.
Forgive me if I’m not particularly optimistic.
Nope, they passed the house bill, this goes straight to POTUS.
They did that because changing the bill would cause the house to have to come back in session. That would have caused the Epstein files to be released.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-flights-airports-snap-11-09-25
• What happens next? There is more to come before the government can reopen. Any one senator can delay consideration of the package for several days, plus the House will have to return and adopt the deal struck in the Senate before it gets sent to President Donald Trump’s desk.
I’ve been wondering about the process. Reporting says the bill is amended to add 3 small bills are attached to it, does that count as needing the House to reopen to approve the additions or anything?
This is a gutless compromise by the moderates, plain and simple. Reopening the government is necessary to stop punishing federal workers and people who rely on services, but doing it without a firm guarantee on ACA subsidies hands Republicans a victory they do not deserve.
Shaheen, Hassan and King just traded a lifesaving healthcare lifeline for vague promises of a future vote. If the GOP wants to play games, Democrats should at least extract real, legally binding protections now, not a “maybe” in December. I get ending the shutdown, but not on the backs of the vulnerable.
Call it relief if you want, I call it a partial defeat. Keep fighting for the subsidies and make sure any rollback of firings is actually enforced and compensated.
It’s a full defeat. The subsidy bill will never pass. The GOP can even filibuster it.
Dems got nothing for this
The election we just had demonstrated that voters are on Democrats’ side in this, so we can only conclude that Democrats do not care about winning elections.
The 9 or so Senators capitulating genuinely don’t need to care, as they largely aren’t up for election next year or are retiring.
The ones that aren’t retiring could be disciplined by the Party.
They won’t be.
The LAST thing Anyone wants after a Month of Hardship and Stress is for ANYTHING AT ALL THAT WAS BEING FOUGHT FOR DURING THAT HARDSHIP AND STRESS!
Limp-wrist weak morons, and of course they dont have the guns to fight fascism, and would rather ask politely for bullies to stop being abusive. Fuck these weak pathetic people in the Left, we need more radical Lefties who are willing to use the rhetoric as the MAGA dipshits and get shit done or repaired within our fucking lifetime, not decades from now.
I don’t know how many times the Dems have to show themselves to be fascist collaborators before people start voting Green en masse instead.
You’d have better luck starting a completely new party than switching to the Greens
And even worse luck continuing to vote Democrat.
Why don’t the Republicans ever break ranks? There’s always a Dem or a few Dems that are happy to capitulate.
Fuck New Hampshire
