🇺🇸 Democrats Cave on Shutdown After 40 Days

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After six weeks of political stalemate, the Senate has struck a bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown — and President Donald J. Trump is signaling his support.

The agreement, crafted by a group of centrist senators, funds key agencies through January 30 while giving Democrats only a symbolic vote on Obamacare subsidies — a move conservatives are calling a Trump-backed victory.

“President Trump gave Republicans unbelievable leverage, forcing ‘moderate’ Democrats to cave,” commentator Eric Daugherty wrote.

After a few more procedural hurdles in the Senate, the measure will advance to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson faces pressure to pass it quickly. If approved, Trump is expected to sign it immediately — officially reopening the government after the longest shutdown in modern history.

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🔔 Democrats Cave on Shutdown After 40 Days
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The government shutdown is finally seeing signs of reaching an endpoint after 40 days, with President Trump telling reporters "it looks like we're getting very close to the shutdown ending" as a group of centrist Democrats negotiated a deal to reopen the government. It will be interesting to see whether Democrats, especially Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, will be held accountable for the crippling effect their shutdown stunt has caused, as they ultimately received nothing of substance in return for inflicting forty days of pain on the nation.

Over the weekend, the President's schedule was packed with activities including an appearance at Northwest Stadium where he became the first sitting president to attend an NFL regular-season game since 1978, watching the Washington Commanders take on the Detroit Lions as part of the league's "Salute to Service" honoring military veterans. As we start the week, President Trump shows no sign of slowing down in what will surely be another eventful series of events in Washington, having already granted full pardons to key allies including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows.

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🔔 Democrats Cave on Shutdown After 40 Days🔔

A disastrous shutdown for Democrats got worse when Senate Democrats folded on government funding while receiving nothing of substance in return, with eight Senate Democrats voting with 42 Republicans on a procedural vote to allow a continuing resolution funding the government to advance. The motion passed 60 to 40, without a single vote to spare, enabling a future vote on a clean continuing resolution through January 30, 2026, packaged with three relatively non-controversial appropriations bills extending through the fiscal year covering agriculture, military construction-Veterans Affairs, and legislative branch. Senator Angus King, who led the talks, told reporters that the Democrats backing the legislation felt the shutdown has gone on long enough, with President Trump arriving at the White House after a weekend in Florida saying "it looks like we're getting very close to the shutdown ending."

The agreement includes back pay for federal employees and guarantees that the 4,000-plus federal employees laid off during the shutdown will be rehired, as well as a blanket prohibition on future reductions in force through January 30, though those jobs are a drop in the bucket compared to the 250,000 or so the Trump administration eliminated before the shutdown. Most significantly, the agreement does not guarantee an extension of Covid-era enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies, with Democrats only receiving assurances of a vote on a bill of their choice, as Majority Leader John Thune said "I will schedule a vote on their proposal, and I have committed to having that vote no later than the second week in December." Even if such a bill were to pass the Senate, Speaker Mike Johnson has not committed to bringing it to the floor of the House, meaning Democrats once again overpromised results to their base but came up empty-handed.

Democrat Sens. Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, and Tim Kaine supported the procedural vote, joining Sens. Catherine Cortez-Masto, Angus King, and John Fetterman, who had previously voted to allow the House-passed CR to advance. The result is another victory for Thune, who kept the Senate in session over the weekend to seek a deal, promising to keep senators working until a deal was struck, while the vote represents the latest and most damaging setback for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose own rank-and-file members condemned his shutdown strategy.

The shutdown, currently in its 40th day, has caused thousands of flight cancellations, furloughed about 750,000 federal employees and put food assistance for millions of Americans at risk. Air traffic staffing shortages led at least 2,300 flights travelling within the US and to and from the country to be cancelled as of Sunday, according to data from tracking platform FlightAware, along with more than 8,000 delays, with New York City area airports, along with Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airports being especially hard-hit. In a sign of how toxic the shutdown end will be for Democrats, no Democrat senators who voted Sunday to begin the process of reopening the government are up for reelection in 2026, with Cortez-Masto, Fetterman, and Hassan not having to run again until 2028, while Kaine, Rosen, and King are not up again until 2030, and Shaheen and Durbin are retiring.

Schumer is increasingly becoming the primary villain for the ascendant left inside the Democratic Party, with his hold on the position of Minority Leader seeming increasingly tenuous after a catastrophic shutdown that delivered Democrats nothing.

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