> It’s over. 10 dem senators expected to cave, vote is tonight

Great but it’s not true. There are negotiations. Which is what dems wanted.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/politics … eal-senate

angrychair
How so?!?
2 hrs ago
We are folding on the main reason Democrats started this whole thing. They are giving up on the ACA subsidies.
I cannot emphasize this enough: if we do not restore the subsidies before the end of the year the entire US healthcare system will collapse. That is not metaphorical or hyperbolic.
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Chicken Magnet
So, Democrats prolonged a shutdown that caused a lot of pain, to make a political point?
13 min ago
I'm sorry but that's not the optics you think it is. If that's the narrative that comes out of this shutdown, Democrats will be the scapegoat for it. The whole point was to force Republicans into concessions and they got nothing if this deal goes through. So, all that pain to help those on the ACA ... was in vain.
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BigmanPigman
I just left him a message....
10 min ago
Basically begging him to stand firm and NOT cave.
His mailbox was not full so that means not enough people are calling him. I call all the senators all the time in every state and a voice mail box should be filled with calls until it can't take any more. More Americans must call!!!!
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AllyCat
F this. Absolutely NOOO!
1 hr ago
Why do they do this? How could they be so spineless when they have to stand up for us?
Sheesh, what is the point of this? A measly 2 months??
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17. Is there any way to remove Schumer from his position of power if Lucy pulls the ball?

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standingtall
There not getting 60 votes
11 min ago
Doing this would be a horrible mistake. Personally I think it's b.s. they should need 60 votes anyway. Republicans never needed 60 votes when they tried to repeal the affordable health care act or when they gutted medicaid while giving massive tax breaks to the ultra wealthy. They did it all under reconciliation so they can find a way to extend the ACA subsidies under reconciliation too.
If Democrats do this they will get absolutely nothing out of it.
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They used to call themselves "Liberal" until that got to be a bad word so now they call themselves "Progressive".

They used to be the Democrat Party until that got to be a bad word so now they call themselves the "Democratic Party".

Republicans, using the same name for over 171 years now.

The Senate Appropriations Committee released the three-bill spending package, known as a minibus, Sunday afternoon. Lawmakers are still waiting on text for an updated continuing resolution (CR), that, if passed, is expected to reopen the government until late January.

It includes legislation that would fund military construction and the VA, the legislative branch and agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.

Senate Republicans view the package as a sweetener that they hope attracts enough Senate Democrats to break through the logjam and move toward reopening the government. And given that the minibus is a largely bipartisan product, lawmakers believe it could succeed.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made clear in the last few days that he would not put a bill on the floor that did not have the votes to pass after spending several weeks daring Senate Democrats to vote against the original House-passed continuing resolution (CR).

"There’s going to be something to vote on, let’s put it that way," Thune said.

Still, the package does not include a deal on Senate Democrats’ chief demand throughout the government shutdown to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies.

Thune has promised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus a vote on the expiring subsidies after the government reopens. And for several weeks, Senate Democrats said that was not enough to assuage the concerns.

Senate Democrats are expected to huddle Saturday night before a likely vote to plot a path forward. If Schumer and his caucus agree to the deal, they would effectively be caving from their deeply-entrenched position that has seen the government shutdown stretch over a month.

Lawmakers will now have time to read over the bills, with a vote expected later Sunday evening.

But, it’s just the first step in what could be a long and drawn-out process. First, Thune will tee up the original House-passed CR for a vote, which lawmakers view as the vehicle to attach the minibus and updated CR to.

Then there will be two more votes before the package advances from the Senate. Then, it will have to go back to the House before making its way to President Donald Trump’s desk.

Schumer and his caucus could still apply pain on the process, too, through procedural hurdles. And despite rumblings of some in the caucus ready to break ranks, some Republicans aren’t too optimistic that this will be an easy process.

"I don't expect anything from the Democrats," Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said. "At this point, their demands have been so ridiculous, I don't know what they're going to do, and at this point, I frankly, don't give a crap."

Bernie can drop fuqing dead. Along with anyone who has ever voted for him or supported him in any way.

John Cornyn, landed at Dulles Airport, on the way the Capitol Hill

What we learn from Trump is that you just have to keep landing blows and everything else takes care of itself.

In our own crappy way in Britain we're witnessing the same thing, where the two heritage main parties may be about to disappear into fourth and fifth place.


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