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Given how self centered congress is, and how much they travel, I'm surprised they haven't at least attempted to pass a bill to fund the DHS, so that their air travel wouldn't be interrupted.

zzyzzx says

Given how self centered congress is, and how much they travel, I'm surprised they haven't at least attempted to pass a bill to fund the DHS, so that their air travel wouldn't be interrupted.

They'll fly on government planes to US bases, if necessary.

The agreement includes back pay for federal employees and guarantees that the 4,000-plus federal employees laid off during the shutdown will be rehired, as well as a blanket prohibition on future reductions in force through January 30. Those jobs are a drop in the bucket compared to the 250,000 or so the Trump administration eliminated before the shutdown.

Most significantly, the agreement does not guarantee an extension of Covid-era enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies, with Democrats only receiving assurances of a vote on a bill of their choice.

“As I have said for weeks to my Democrat friends, I will schedule a vote on their proposal, and I have committed to having that vote no later than the second week in December,” Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said on the Senate floor before the vote.

Even if such a bill were to pass the Senate, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has not committed to bringing it to the floor of the House.

The result is that Democrats once again overpromised results to their base but came up empty-handed, inflicting forty days of pain for nothing of substance.

Democrat Sens. Maggie Hassan (NH), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Dick Durbin (IL), Jacky Rosen (NV), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) supported the procedural vote. They joined Sens. Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NM), Angus King (I-ME), and John Fetterman (D-PA), who had previously voted to allow the House-passed CR to advance.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul (KY) voted no, as he has done throughout prior rounds of votes.

The result is another victory for Thune, who kept the Senate in session over the weekend to seek a deal, promising to keep senators working until a deal was struck.

Perhaps more significantly, the vote is the latest — and most damaging — setback for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). His own rank-and-file members — centrists and the most liberal — condemned his shutdown strategy Sunday night.

Schumer is increasingly becoming the primary villain for the ascendant left inside the Democratic Party, and his hold on the position of Minority Leader seems increasingly tenuous.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/09/democrats-cave-government-funding-receive-nothing-ending-schumer-shutdown/

Those '4000' laid off I would bet are Senior Executive Service, Trump's internal government civil war nemesis and menace.

I was hopping for mass layoffs and at least one more week of shutdown. This is a disappointment.

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

The result is that Democrats once again overpromised results to their base but came up empty-handed, inflicting forty days of pain for nothing of substance.

This was always about turning out the base for the off year elections we just had. Nothing more.

This has become my standard repeat answer to moronic Dems like this guy:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/unconditional-surrender-monday-november

As you know, Republicans held the Senate in session all weekend. The pressure relentlessly piled up until the cracks became irresistible. By late afternoon yesterday, eight “centrist” Democrats defied their party and voted with Republicans to invoke cloture and end debate on a 90-day continuing resolution. Republicans only gave them a couple minor modifications, related to back pay and re-hiring federal workers fired during the shutdown’s first weeks.

But Democrats completely surrendered on their single claimed reason for forcing the country to endure 40 days of nonsense and angst. There will be no Obamacare subsidies. No participation trophy. Not even a cracker. ...

It sure looks that way. It looks like a Donkey Cage Match. Even though Senate Minority Leader Chuck “Chuckie” Schumer voted against the bill, House Representative Ro Khanna (D-Ca.) hotly demanded Schumer’s resignation:

@RoKhanna
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you
can't lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for
Americans, what will you fight for?
9:11 PM • Nov 9, 2025

... Not coincidentally, none of the eight Democrats who joined Republicans last night face re-election next year. (Two have already announced their retirement.) It wasn’t any rebellion. They got the green light. All the Democrats’ hand-wringing today is just a fake show for the base.

So how did Trump do it?

Last week, Trump sank the Democrats into a pressure cooker and locked the lid. Here are the four biggest ways:

The Administration ensured that Democrats were squeezed from both ends of their electorate: SNAPpers on the bottom as food stamps trickled out in slow motion, and starting this weekend, laptop-class elites at the top whose flights were canceled and delayed.

Senate Republicans busily advanced a “mini-bus” bill that would have funded SNAP and the military, which Democrats would have been forced to vote against, with ensuing horrible optics and painful political gymnastics.

Trump started using the shutdown as an excuse to nuke the filibuster; and if that ever happens, Dems lose everything. And they know it.

Most explosively, Trump nipped off the Dems’ “affordability” narrative while they were looking the other way. He tweeted a chart showing that Obamacare ‘subsidies’ don’t go to needy patients, but to rich insurance companies. Then he showed how insurance stock prices rocketed over 1,000% since Obamacare passed.

The shutdown isn’t quite over yet. But it is inevitabe now. Invoking “cloture” sends the bill off to the full Senate for debate and passage.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/government-shutdown-updates/?id=127369640

It seems to me that the Dems plan all along was to keep the government closed until the VA and NJ elections were done. The 5 Dems who now voted to bring the total to 60 had been selected weeks ago for that purpose - none of them face re-election in 2026 and a couple are even retiring.

https://ground.news/article/e3c0e49a-f53e-4420-a023-18b556356476

Trump signs funding bill into law, ending record-long government shutdown

On Wednesday, U.S. Congress moved to end the longest government shutdown, 43 days, as the House of Representatives prepared to rubber-stamp a Senate funding package to reopen federal agencies in Washington.

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-somberly-remove-sombreros-signaling-end-of-shutdown

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/19/democrats-wasted-shutdown-voters-healthcare/87323490007/