The amended package will still have to be passed by the House and sent to Trump for his signature, a process that could take days
The compromise legislation authorizes government funding through 30 January 2026 and undoes the firings of federal workers that the White House carried out after the shutdown began. It also guarantees retroactive pay for furloughed federal workers and those who stayed on the job during the shutdown, and prevents further layoffs through January. Included in the compromise are three appropriations bill that will authorize spending through the 2026 fiscal year for the departments of agriculture and veterans affairs, among others.
The compromise does not resolved the issue of the Affordable Care Act premiums, which one study forecast would jump by an average of 26% if the tax credits were allowed to expire.
As part of the deal, Thune said he would allow a vote on a bill to deal with the credits by the second week of December. But even if it succeeds, Republican House speaker Mike Johnson has said he will not put such a measure on the floor.
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“But people need to fly for the holidays! Don’t you understand?! There’s billions of dolla-I mean, family gatherings to think of. Think of the gatherings!”
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The Senate, however, is expected to leave for a previously scheduled weeklong recess as soon as it can clear the funding package for the House, which could incentivize lawmakers not to hold up the process.
Why work when you already get paid for doing absolutely nothing?
This is not the first time voting became a priority before vacation gets cancelled.
They have vacation plans that can’t be just ruined because some poors will lose access to healthcare, 85% of their campaign is funded by 5 people and they all have amazing healthcare.
Why would Trump sign? That is one step closer to releasing the Epstein files and proving that the President of the United States of America is a pedophile.
OK, this is starting to make sense.
The deal says “You have to put the ACA subsidies to a vote by December. In return, we’ll fund the government until January.”
So they’re not giving up their leverage, because if the Republicans fuck around the Dems can just slam the brakes on again right away. Meanwhile it puts the ball squarely in the Republicans court to actually do something about this issue that is raising healthcare prices for people all across America. It puts the focus on the Republican controlled House, and on Trump, letting the public really see who is fighting for them and who isn’t.
I know it’s easy to assume that this is another example of Shumer caving (God only knows, he does it so much I’m starting to think his spine is a paper straw), but looking at the details I’m starting to think this is actually a solid play.
This sounds naive, nothing personal. Mike Johnson already openly said he doesn’t promise anything. There will either be no vote on the ACA or Republicans will just all vote against it.
Democrats got played and they deserve all the hatred thrown at them for it.
I know it’s easy to assume that this is another example of Shumer caving
People are going to, but Schumer is at least saying he’s against it, and wasn’t one of the votes.
He’s not a leader, he was there to relay orders from the DNC to politicians, and any “power” he had with that was the DNC bankrupting someone’s state party if they refused to obey.
Without a corrupt DNC backing him, no one cares what Schumer says/thinks.
It’s a big reason why Schumer needs replaced in leadership asap.
He’s completely useless, so we might as well give it to a young/popular senator. Someone that Dem voters like at least. Everytime Schumer steps in front of a mic, it depresses Dem turnout.
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To be clear, this is how every neoliberal “led”.
And why I hate people saying “Well, Pelosi was good at whipping votes”…
She was just willing to bankrupt entire state parties handing seats to republicans if anyone with a D by their name didn’t do what the neoliberala running the DNC wanted.
That was never a good thing.
But now we’re returning to a bottom-up structure. Where elected reps answer to voters, and all the DNC does is run unbiased primaries every four years and ensures the state parties are funded enough to compete.
We don’t want a powerful DNC, that’s been the problem for 30-50 years now…
My thoughts on this aligh with you. But I’ll add one more layer to what you’ve said… This forces the government to open even temporarily which now leaves no excuse for Speaker Mike Johnson for not swearing in Adaleta Grejalva (my apologies for the misspelling). And with her sworn in that is the final vote needed to move on releasing the Epstein files, which if the recent rumors floating around are to be believed then they are sooo much worse for trump than originally thought. But supposedly there’s enough Republicans willing to sign on with the release that the it looks like the Dems are trying to pull this bait and switch… or atleast that’s how I’ve taken all this movement in the last few days.
There’s no more leverage.
The deal is government opens. That’s it.
Democrats just voted for that. That’s it.
There is no assumption. The vote already happened.
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