There is one point that many are angry aboutThe eight Democratic caucus senators who conceded to the shutdown are ageing. The Republicans wanted a year of government funding. Republicans in Congress floated the idea of funding the government for three years.
Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate ultimately received 81 days of funding.
That’s it. Eighty-one days, which is less than three months.
No one will say it out loud, but my deep suspicion is that the eight Democrats convinced themselves to concede because they didn’t want the shutdown to last the entire holiday season.
Those eight Democrats didn’t want chaos at airports over Thanksgiving weekend. They didn’t want stories about federal workers who can’t buy Christmas presents, or about families getting their Christmas meals from food banks. Newsflash to those Democrats: Due to high grocery prices, many families receiving SNAP must also rely on food banks to obtain enough food to survive.
The “deal” that the eight Senate Democrats struck funded SNAP for a year and secured a Senate vote on restoring Obamacare subsidies.
The problem is that the House of Representatives is not involved in the deal.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Scripps News:
NEW: Senator Majority Leader THUNE tells scrippsnews he has NOT spoken to Speaker Johnson ‘recently’ about whether the House will vote on a Senate bill to extend ACA subsidies. THUNE: “My promise was to have that vote here, and they’ll have to figure out what to do in the House…”
Eight Senate Democrats have betrayed 24 million Americans on the health care issue to get a vote that will not happen in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
Despite all the dramatic conclusions some are drawing, it is important to remember that the fight is far from over.
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