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President Donald Trump signed legislation ending a 43-day government shutdown, but political tension remains high. An analyst warns that Democrats and Republicans are now locked in a fierce battle over who can claim victory from the prolonged standoff. While Democrats failed to secure their top priorities, both parties are racing to control the narrative as federal workers return to their jobs and government services resume. #republicans  #US #democrats #apt

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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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