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ego_nation

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2. The premise of the shutdown

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:40 PM

Nov 10

was getting R’s to come and negotiate. And then after 40 days of the shutdown, the Dems gave in without getting anything out of it. And that’s the crux. If the Dems held out and got some concessions for the ACA, you could point to how the shutdown ultimately benefited Americans. But instead, people lost paychecks and SNAP and people still are going to lose their subsidies.Maybe it was always going to end up this way, but if that’s the case, the length of the shutdown seems to be a major miscalculation.

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Can someone please enlighten me? [View all] sarisataka Nov 10 OP

Because the argument made over the past month was tenuous at best AZJonnie Nov 10 #1

The premise of the shutdown ego_nation Nov 10 #2

It was always the Republican Shutdown. The 8 Senate democrats ended it Emile Nov 10 #3

Well the politics of a shut down are complicated. Jacson6 Nov 10 #4