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In reply to the discussion: The GOP and White House are "cackling with glee", calling Dem capitulation "losers and pussies" [View all]Can't see the forest for the trees.
Getting ACA subsidies with republican control wasn't going to happen. Expecting otherwise is delusional.
You have the promise of a vote, which will fail, but in the end you either have republicans on record or they dont have the vote and you hammer them with it. It will also cause internal strife with folks like MTG.
You also have snap funded, as you said and plenty of chances is to revisit the fight.
Trumps poll numbers were crished during it as well, and those won't recover just from it ending.
They shut down the government for 40 days, the longest shutdown ever. They couldn't keep it shut down forever. Will people lose Healthcare? Yes. Will people die? Yes. Those things were decided when Republicans took power, nothing democrats could do to stop it.