00:00And so you could argue that while the Democrats didn't
00:29get the thing that they were putting at the top of their to do their wish list for the
00:33shutdown. They didn't get that. They did get other things. And but that's this is where
00:39there's the difference between accomplishment and narrative. At this moment, the narrative
00:44is running that Democrats folded and therefore they lost the shutdown.
00:49On this vote, the yeas are 222. The nays are 209. The bill is passed. The motion is adopted.
01:11What will be interesting, and this is always interesting in following politics, is narratives
01:15change. The news cycle moves on. Somebody thinks up a different set of talking points. The
01:19Democrats figure out a way to sell this as a victory. And if they get the vote in December
01:27and enough Republicans realize it would be disastrous for their political future to vote against
01:32extending the subsidies and the Democrats get that win in mid-December or possibly at
01:36some time in January, then they can say retroactively like, look, we did win.
01:51Just as Republicans and Democrats are going to be fighting with each other to control the
01:54narrative of who won the shutdown, progressives and centrists in the Democratic Party are going
01:58to be fighting each other over the narrative of was this a capitulation or was this good strategy.
02:08The services that the government provides are now six weeks essentially behind schedule,
02:14and some of that productivity might never get recovered. Obviously, some of the more direct
02:21impacts were air traffic controllers, canceled flights, delayed flights. That will clean up relatively
02:28quickly. That's the kind of thing. Those are really the short-term impacts.
02:49President Trump probably should be unhappy that the economy is probably going to look less good in
02:57the first quarter of 2026 than it would have if this shutdown hadn't happened. And when you're the
03:02president, the health of the economy is one of your primary concerns, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican.
03:27Dr.
03:41Or he's a great leader, when all the engineers are figures completely groaning quickly and would have been
03:45locked up instead of getting folded in the same direction as we yap. The gig is a little bit up, but we have the
03:49time to get platinum. Off the floor of everybody, where's this one? Yes.
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