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00:00In just a few hours, we could be one step closer to ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
00:07So eight Senate Democrats broke away from the rest of the party last night, cutting a deal with Senate Republicans.
00:12A final Senate vote could happen today as flight cancellations pile up nationwide and food benefits hang in the balance for millions of Americans.
00:21The deal would reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.
00:29Senate Majority Leader John Thune promised that vote will happen by mid-December.
00:34It also reverses federal layoffs made during the shutdown and funds the government through the end of January.
00:41Breakaway Democratic Caucus members defended their vote late last night.
00:46There was no guarantee we would ever get to an ACA solution.
00:50Now we've got robust SNAP funding and a guaranteed vote, not a guaranteed outcome, but a guaranteed vote on ACA tax credits.
00:57To put people through the pain that they're now in and yet not achieve the result that you're going for, which is some deal on the ACA, to me just didn't make sense.
01:08Joining me now in the group chat, Sabrina Rodriguez, national politics reporter at The Washington Post, Isaac Dover, CNN senior reporter, and Catherine Lucey, White House correspondent for Bloomberg News.
01:20So first, I want to give people a sense of the mix of Democrats who came down for this vote, because most of them, they're retiring or they're for re-election.
01:34So politically, the stakes are not high for them.
01:38But, Isaac, I want to start because the red flag to me was Dick Durbin.
01:41He's number two, Senate Democrat.
01:43He's not going to get involved in this unless leadership in general is like, OK, now it's time.
01:48Well, I mean, maybe.
01:50He's retiring himself.
01:52He's done next year.
01:54And he is the number two voter for the deal.
01:58But Chuck Schumer and Brian Schatz, who is seen as the leader in waiting, voted against it.
02:05But don't they have to?
02:06I mean, they're on shaky ground with the progressives of the party.
02:08I mean, they both voted for the deal that was made with Trump in the spring.
02:13So it is a little unclear what happened there.
02:16I do think what you see here going on is something that has been happening within the Democratic Party for these nine-plus months of the Trump presidency,
02:23which is that there is a divide in the Democratic Party, not over age or ideology.
02:29We sometimes talk about that progressives.
02:30That's not what is going on.
02:32It is a divide between people who see this as needing to fight and having a posture of fighting and fighting Trump and fighting for something.
02:41And those who basically are approaching this as we need to figure out a way through this, negotiate business as usual, whether it's an emergency situation or not.
02:50And that is what is playing out here again.
02:51The axis of compromise.
02:52I want to talk about the folks who are on the end.
02:54That's more of the fighting.
02:56Thirty-nine Senate Democrats, right, could still vote against this.
03:01Here's some of them.
03:03I know as part of this resolution that the majority leader is going to say,
03:08well, Democrats can create, put together their own bill, and it will come to the floor here in the Senate for a vote.
03:15As everybody here knows, that is a totally meaningless gesture.
03:21I mean, I voted no just because I'm so pissed off.
03:24I'm just frustrated.
03:26You're right, 40 days, and they still, we gave them every chance to negotiate a moderate.
03:32It doesn't have to put the whole thing back, and they wouldn't do it.
03:38Pissed off, I think it's probably an accurate reflection of where a lot of Democrats both on the Hill and in the country are this morning.
03:43Yeah, but is it a meaningless gesture if it ends this thing and people are hurting?
03:48I think that's the calculation that's challenging, is, you know, Democrats.
03:52But I think, you know, one interesting dynamic to look at was the senators from Virginia who split on this.
03:56Obviously, Cain saying that it was time they needed to do something.
04:01Warner not agreeing to this deal.
04:03And so, and that's a state that has been, obviously, like all states, hit by SNAP benefits,
04:07but also the impact on federal jobs.
04:09Yeah, yeah, for sure.
04:10So this is a tough dynamic for Democrats, but you have a lot of people who felt like
04:16we stuck it in here for this many days, trying to get something.
04:20You saw the election results last week, and they're not-
04:23Which, it brings me to Republicans, actually, because it could have always ended this way,
04:27which is you guys get your vote on this thing.
04:30We get our clean CR budget resolution.
04:32Everyone goes home happy.
04:33This is kind of how it's happened in the past.
04:35We promise you we'll vote on this thing later.
04:38But they took a really long time to make that offer.
04:41I mean, I think it's notable that it's less than a week out from the election where we saw
04:46Democrats perform well across the country and in key states.
04:51We knew that when we saw, you know, the initial conversation was,
04:54oh, this can't last too, too long.
04:56Like, this will get figured out.
04:58You know, that's usually what happens.
05:00And as it started dragging on, then there was more speculation and conversation about,
05:04wait, are both parties kind of waiting to see how things shake out in the election
05:07to sort of see who has more momentum on their side?
05:10And who was getting blame?
05:11It wasn't working out the way people expected.
05:14And we saw the president for weeks not really say too much about the shutdown,
05:18not talk too much or wade too much into what needed to be happening.
05:21But last week, we did see him talk multiple times about him wanting to see moves on this.
05:26Now, for him, it started turning into a conversation about the filibuster
05:29and wanting to kill the filibuster.
05:31Which is not in here.
05:32Which is not in there and is not something that Senate Republicans wanted to have to deal with.
05:37So I think for them, that also put them in a position to say,
05:40what can we do here that moves the president away from the filibuster
05:43and gets us to a place that we can live with?
05:45If approved, the deal would end, extend government funding through January 30th.
05:52It would fund SNAP benefits through the fiscal year of 2026
05:55and reverse President Trump's layoffs of federal workers during the shutdown.
06:00But Democrats did not get the main thing that they've been fighting for,
06:03an agreement to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.
06:07What they got instead was a promise from Republicans to hold a vote on that next month.
06:12For many Democrats, including the party's leaders, that's simply not enough.
06:17Without those credits, health insurance premiums could soar for millions of Americans.
06:22The Democrat-aligned lawmakers who crossed party lines to support the deal say they had little choice.
06:30I understand that not all of my Democratic colleagues are satisfied with this agreement.
06:35But waiting another week or another month wouldn't deliver a better outcome.
06:40It would only mean more harm for families in New Hampshire and all across the country.
06:45As I assessed it, there was zero chance of dealing with the ACA issue as long as the shutdown continued.
06:53Now, I don't know, 50-50?
06:56But there's a lot better chance now than there was this morning.
07:00All right. Joining me now is Steph Kite, a politics reporter with Axios.
07:05Just give us a sense of what the latest is right now.
07:07What will happen today?
07:10Well, right now, the biggest question is whether there's going to be a unanimous agreement in the Senate to move forward on this final vote on this package.
07:20Last night was a huge breakthrough.
07:22The first time that there were enough Democratic votes to even move forward with some kind of a bipartisan deal.
07:29But they still have to pass that final passage vote, and this could drag on for a couple days.
07:36All eyes are on Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, who often tries to drag these things out.
07:43It's unclear if there's going to be an agreement to get this done quickly.
07:46Then, of course, the House is going to have to come back and take this up as well.
07:50And it's not going to be an easy feat for Speaker Johnson to get this through his chamber either, especially given when it comes to these CRs, these short-term funding bills.
08:02There are many Republicans who are uncomfortable with continuing to vote for these to push back the full appropriations process.
08:08It's also very clear that Democratic leadership is opposed to this deal, and that will keep many House Democrats in line.
08:16There are a handful of moderate House Democrats who will be looking forward to see whether they're going to be willing to vote for this deal and provide some cover for Mike Johnson once this does get to the House.
08:28And, of course, House members are going to have to get back to town relatively quickly at a time when we're seeing many canceled flights across the country and travel headaches.
08:37Yeah, I mean, the very thing that they've caused with the travel headaches, they are now in a position to fix, but they might not be able to get there quick enough to do it very, very fast.
08:48But at this point in time, you're looking at those eight Democrats who have pretty much crossed party lines and said, like, look, we need to go ahead and fund the government.
08:58Senator Fetterman, obviously, is someone who's going to stick to his guns.
09:01But is there any shakiness on the part of others who are hearing from their constituents as well and monitoring what is being said?
09:13I mean, we'll see how today shakes out.
09:15The truth is many of these Democrats have already, for several days, if not a couple weeks, been looking at some kind of bipartisan deal.
09:23They are already hearing from constituents about the impacts of the shutdown.
09:27So there's that factor as well.
09:29Some of these, you know, four of these main votes here are former governors.
09:33They understand what it's like for states to be impacted by government shutdowns and one that's prolonged, been this prolonged, especially.
09:42We'll see, though, that the anger towards Democrats is very clear and was immediate.
09:47As soon as reporting was coming out about the contours of this deal, we were hearing from progressives in the House and in the Senate who are unhappy and feel that Democrats have gotten nothing from that.
09:58So whether we see that have an impact on these votes, it's still unclear.
10:01But for now, they seem locked in.
10:04All right, Steph, Kai, thank you so much for your reporting this morning there from Washington.
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