Who Ended it and Ended the pain…
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Who don’t Give a Damn about screwing people to get their way?….
Nicholas Grossman: “More of the public held Republicans responsible for the shutdown, and Trump’s net approval rating declined. Around 75% of Americans wanted Obamacare subsidies extended, including nearly half of MAGA voters. Among that 75%, Americans blamed Trump and the GOP for jeopardizing health insurance by an overwhelming 53 points.”
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“I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), quoted by Semafor.
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Paul Krugman: “Like almost all progressives, I was infuriated and disheartened by Senate Democrats’ cave on the shutdown Sunday. The party won stunning election victories Tuesday — and its leaders responded with yet another preemptive surrender? (Chuck Schumer may have voted no, but he didn’t manage, and may not even have tried, to prevent defections.)”
“Yet while the immediate politics displayed Democratic tactical weakness, the larger story highlighted a different kind of weakness on the part of Donald Trump and MAGA as a whole — namely, their innate cruelty. They have a visceral dislike for policies that do anything to help the less fortunate, and can’t even bring themselves to be cynical, to help Americans temporarily while they consolidate power.”
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“Before heading back to Washington, D.C., to vote on a measure to end the government shutdown, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faced a fiery crowd Monday at a town hall in Keosauqua,” the Iowa Capital Dispatch reports.
“Members of the audience yelled as the Republican representative spoke about her support of Medicaid changes made in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ and President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.”
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“President Trump threatened to dock the pay of air-traffic controllers who don’t return to work, as flight cancellations and delays spread across the country because of the government shutdown,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“He said he would recommend air-traffic controllers who didn’t take off time during the shutdown receive a $10,000 per person bonus.”
Democrats lose shutdown battle — as Trump, Republicans risk losing war
Democrats are embroiled in a new round of infighting, while Republicans are bracing for longer-term consequences if they continue to oppose an extension of Obamacare subsidies…
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“Once you give someone something and you take it away a hundred percent, it’s politically difficult,” he said.
Christina Gray, 58, an independent voter from Texas who gets her health insurance through the ACA, said the shutdown fight, for her, boils down to Republican opposition to the health care law. “The Democrats, I do have to give them this, they’re trying to help somebody,” said Gray, who has not voted in recent years. “And the Republicans, they’re just being ridiculous.”
Even some Democrats opposed to this week’s funding deal say they think they have prevailed in the minds of voters…