Schumer offers deal to reopen federal government, with 1-year ACA tax credit extension

As shutdown nears its end, Tammy Baldwin warns of rising health care costs

As the government shutdown approaches its end, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites could see their health care costs soar. The post As shutdown nears its end, Tammy Baldwin warns of rising health care costs appeared first on WPR.

Claire McCaskill: The shutdown deal gives Democrats an opportunity to put pressure on the GOP

Claire McCaskill says that by agreeing to end the shutdown and ensure a vote for health care subsidies, Democrats are putting political pressure on Republicans.

13 thoughts on the end of the shutdown

In the week before the government shutdown, I spoke to many Democrats in Congress who endorsed the shutdown strategy but didn’t actually believe it would work. They anticipated that Democrats would face backlash from the public, leading to immediate pressure to surrender, and they mostly hoped that they would not personally need to issue the surrender votes and tempt backlash from their own base. Instead it worked — the public mostly blamed Trum…

The Democrats’ Shutdown Surrender

Dan Pfeiffer: “Well, no one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the Democrats.”“Less than a week after a resounding victory — one Trump even blamed on the government shutdown — a group of Senate Democrats reached a deal with Senate Republican leadership and the Trump White

BREAKING: Senate moves to reopen government after Democrats break from Schumer

"“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."

Eight Democrats Defy Chuck Schumer To Advance Deal That Would End Shutdown

Eight Democrats bucked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to support a deal that will end the government shutdown.