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Senate Democrats cave, open path to reopening government
Several Senate Democrats crossed the aisle despite getting no guaranteed deal on Obamacare subsidies

  • by Alex Miller ,and Leo Briceno, Fox News, November 9, 2025

    The Senate took a massive step forward on its way to reopening the government on Sunday, with a group of Senate Democrats caving and joining Republicans in their bid to pass a revamped plan to end the shutdown.

    Signs that the shutdown, which entered its 40th day, could be ending became more and more clear as the day went on, particularly with the unveiling of a bipartisan package of spending bills that lawmakers hope to attach to a modified bill to reopen the government.

    Eight Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to mark the first step in the GOP’s quest to end the shutdown. Many of the lawmakers that splintered from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., were among those engaged in bipartisan talks over the last several weeks.

    Among the defectors were Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Tim Kaine, D-Va., and the number two Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin, D-Ill.


    "The question was, does the shutdown further the goal of achieving some needed support for the extension of the tax credits? Our judgment was that it will not," King said. "It would not produce that result. And the evidence for that is almost seven weeks of fruitless attempts to make that happen."

    Schumer and Senate Democrats long stayed the course that they would only vote to reopen the government in exchange for a solid deal on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies.

    But the solution developed over the last several days included nothing of the sort. While there were some wins in the updated continuing resolution (CR), like reversals of some of the firings of furloughed workers undertaken by the Trump administration and guaranteeing back pay for furloughed workers, there was no guaranteed victory in sight on the Obamacare issue.

    That means that Senate Democrats effectively caved with little to show for their healthcare push, save for the guarantee of a vote on the subsidies from Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., which was reflected in the updated CR.




But the lunatic fringe, which is to say the Democrat majority, was perfectly content to continue the shut-down through Thanksgiving and further into the Christmas season, crippling the commercial airlines, and businesses, and federal employees, and ALL U.S. CITIZENS through the busiest and most festive and economically important time of the year.
Which is to say, political suicide for the Democrat-Bolshevik party, wih no plan or exit strategy.
And 8 Democrat Senators finally came to that realization.


Further, Obamacare has been a failure since it began, and has required multiple federal bailouts since it began (much like the U.S. Postal Service does on a regular basis).
It has increased medical costs, and decreased the availability of healhcare. It WAS DESIGNED from its creation to collapse, and force the destruction of the private healthcare system, and to force a Federal promised o lower costs, but in truth was secretly planned by Democrats to do exactly what it has done, to damage privae healthcare and make it unaffordable, to require a federal takeover of the healthcare system, to create another public-sector way for he Democrat-Bolshevik party to control all our lives, on the path to a Democrat-controlled one-party authoritarian government. It was designed to initially collapse in 2017, after which a planned Hillary Clinton presidency would implement federal takeover of the healtthcare system, that Democrats deliberately designed and orchestrated to fail toward that end.

But when Trump was elected in Nov 2016, that plan failed, and private healthcare was saved.

So... all this chaos with the current shutdown, in a desperate bid by Democrat-Bolsheviks to save the last evil piece of Obama's legacy, that doesn't deserve to be saved. Born as a deceittful Democrat Trojan Horse, maintained through several bailouts during years of Democrat control, and Democrat-extorted bailouts even during Republican years in control, despite its clear ongoing failure.
And now one last bid of deceit by Democrats in this latest destructive shutdown, to keep Obamacare barely going one last time. It was designed from its inception to collapse and fail, it doesn't deserve to be further subsidized, it deserves to die. Let it die. It will anyway, no matter how many federal bailouts are issued to keep it barely limping along.