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00:00Today, the Senate voted to start reopening the government.

00:05We took a big step forward to protect the health care of tens of millions of Americans

00:10in exchange for funding through January 31st.

00:14This agreement will give Democrats control of the Senate floor for a vote on one of our

00:18top legislative priorities, extending the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.

00:25The agreement reinstates thousands of fired federal workers and provides back pay to more

00:30than a million others.

00:32It advances three bipartisan funding bills for agriculture and FDA, for military construction

00:39and veterans affairs, and for the legislative branch.

00:45Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House.

00:49And they made clear over a period of weeks, including just this week, that this was as

00:56far as they would go as part of the shutdown talks.

01:00This was the only deal on the table.

01:03It was our best chance to reopen the government and immediately begin negotiations to extend

01:08the ACA tax credits that tens of millions of Americans rely on to keep costs down.

01:14The question was, does the shutdown further the goal of achieving some needed support for

01:22the extension of the tax credits?

01:25Our judgment was that it would not produce that result.

01:31And the evidence for that is almost seven weeks of fruitless attempts to make that happen.

01:39Would it change in a week or another week or after Thanksgiving or Christmas?

01:48And there's no evidence that it would.

01:51What there is evidence of is the harm that the shutdown is doing to the country, what it's

01:56doing to millions of federal workers, but also what it's doing to tens of millions of recipients

02:05of SNAP.

02:08Because it wasn't working.

02:11How long would it take to not get a response to say it isn't working?

02:19In other words, it's been six weeks.

02:22There's been no, the Republicans made it clear they weren't going to discuss the health care

02:27issue, the Affordable Care Act tax credits until the shutdown was over.

02:35We tried to keep working that for six weeks.

02:40It didn't happen.

02:41The vote that we have is not a guarantee for sure.

02:45It's more of a guarantee.

02:47Here's the way I would put it.

02:49As I assessed it, there was zero chance of dealing with the ACA issue as long as the shutdown

02:55continued.

02:56Now, I don't know, 50-50?

02:59But there's a lot better chance now than there was this morning.

03:03At a time when families desperately need relief, Washington's dysfunction is making life harder

03:09for families, and the last 39 days are proof of that.

03:14A record-long government shutdown paired with record high health insurance cost increases

03:20is not the kind of history that the American people want Congress to make.

03:26I expect Republicans to be at the table in the next few weeks.

03:30I expect the White House to be at the table, and if they do choose not to come to the table,

03:36they can own the disastrous premium increases that will continue to rise.

03:41They will own the fact that Americans across this country are going to lose access to health

03:45care.

03:47We were elected in the Senate to work on real solutions that help working families.

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