The 8 Democratic caucus members who voted Yea (final list) on the government shutdown 'deal'
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Jacky Rosen
Maggie Hassan
Jeanne Shaheen (retiring)
Angus King
John Fetterman
Tim Kaine
Dick Durbin (retiring)
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/09/politics/democrats-voting-government-shutdown-deal
A group of Democrats and one Democratic-aligned independent have helped clinch an agreement to end the government shutdown, saying they had secured a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies at the center of the standoff.
The negotiators argued that Republicans’ “flat refusal” to move on Democrats’ earlier proposals made clear that “this is the best possible offer we could secure.”
Here’s a look at some of those members, and their rationale for ending the shutdown.
Four of them are former governors of their home states and none are up for reelection in next year’s midterms.
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She also was a (if not THE) key deciding Dem who helped give us the fascist scum Emil Bove on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (and made him a prime candidate for Trump to elevate to the SCOTUS) when she was the first Dem to come out against Adeel Mangi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeel_A._Mangi
On November 21, 2024, Senator Chuck Schumer announced that he had made a deal with Senate Republicans to withhold floor votes on Mangi and three other Biden appellate nominees in exchange for permitting several district court judges' nominations to go forward to floor votes.
In a letter to President Biden dated December 16, 2024, Mangi wrote that the Judicial Confirmation process in the United States is "fundamentally broken" and emphasized the risk nominees–particularly minorities–are exposed to in the confirmation process. Mangi reiterated how attacks against him had not sought to engage in questioning of his qualifications, but rather sought to perpetuate Islamophobic rhetoric and raise money for committee members' political campaigns through "performative McCarthyism."
In July 2025, the Senate confirmed Emil Bove to fill the vacancy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/catherine-cortez-masto-adeel-mangi-judicial-nominee_n_65fa4f50e4b03f22de6133f4