The deal, negotiated by a group of Democrats and GOP leaders, funds the government through Jan. 30. If it passes, it will still need to clear the House, which will likely take days.
WASHINGTON — Senators struck an agreement Sunday, projecting confidence that it will be sufficient to end the lengthy U.S. government shutdown, three sources with direct knowledge of the details told NBC News.
The agreement, reached by a group of Democrats who teamed up with Republicans, should have the necessary 60 votes to clear the Senate, these sources said. It would then need to pass the House and earn President Donald Trump’s signature to become law and reopen the government.
Even if it has enough support to clear those hurdles, the process is expected to take days.
The agreement contains a “minibus” — three full-year appropriations bills that will fund certain departments like Agriculture through the end of the fiscal year next fall — and a continuing resolution to fund the rest of the government at existing spending levels through Jan. 30.
It would also fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, once known as food stamps, through next September, a major flashpoint in the shutdown.
The sources said the deal also reverses Trump’s attempted layoffs of federal workers during the shutdown through RIFs, or “reduction in force” notifications.
But in a major concession from Democrats, it does not include an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Allowing the funds to lapse would raise insurance premiums for millions of Americans unless they are extended. Instead, the Democrats settled for a promise that the Senate will vote on a bill to extend the subsidies by the end of the second week of December, with the outcome uncertain, two of the sources said.
Even then, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said he won’t promise that the House will vote on extending the subsidies.
There’s no denying that what Republicans are doing is evil and will kill millions of Americans. But there’s another kind of evil in standing down and allowing an evil force to do whatever the hell they want. Do not forget today, the day Democrats abandoned you to the Republicans whim.
…again
Maybe the argument for conceding is to let people feel the pain so they know the Dems were fighting for everyone. That is assuming they are and it’s not some corpo facade. At this point who knows.
People will die as a result of the Democrats allowing Republicans to strip healthcare funding. To allow that to happen in order to gain political leverage is unconscionable.
the Democrats settled for a promise
Typical Neoliberals: always willing to sell out the country in exchange for the assurances of liars that they’re going to do the opposite of what they always do 🤬🤦
“Whelp, we tried. I mean, I didn’t care anyway” -every democrat that votes yes
I think what the headline means to say is “In exchange for nothing, Democrats sell out their constituents”
I’m disappointed too, but there’s a reasonable chance the huge expected jump in healthcare costs will bite the GOP in the ass…
Just look at MTG
Yeah the thousands of people who are going to die, be bankrupted, and or go homeless in the meantime probably don’t give a fuck about how it might change the elections in a year.
And lets be honest, it’s not going to change the elections either since nobody is willing to use their vote for anything but more garbage from both of these parties.
tbf the millions of people who are starving probably don’t care about health insurance premiums
and the innocent people in gulags probably… well, they probably care about the starving people because they’re not monsters but lets say they have their own priorities
i agree with the sentiment but republicans presented only horrible, cruel options and democrats were forced to choose
tbf the millions of people who are starving probably don’t care about health insurance premiums
Yeah, because paying MUCH more for something else that you ALSO need in order to stay alive and be able to work REALLY helps with being able to afford food!
republicans presented only horrible, cruel options
True
democrats were forced to choose
And by caving to the Republicans in exchange for a temporary band aid and empty promises from known liars, they made an awful choice that’s going to kill MORE people than holding firm would.
Well we knew this would end once the flights were getting cancelled. It’s all for show. 🙄
Does anyone else think it’s bullshit how Congress gets paid while the shutdown is going on?
BREAKING: Democrats officially take credit for longest shutdown in US history
I’m so livid. The Democrats just threw away the most politically advantageous position they’ve had in the last 197 years. They could have just done nothing until the next election cycle and guarantee a monumental blue wave, a blue fucking tsunami, as people would vote en masse to replace Republicans with Democrats because this shutdown was obviously 100% on the Republicans. Instead they decided to turn that politically advantageous position against themselves. They saw the Republicans tying themselves a noose, and leapt right into it.
If the GOP isn’t going to fund the subsidies now, they’re not going to do it in a couple of months. A teenager could see through a lie like that. I knew the Dems were cowards, but before this year I really didn’t know just how leaderless we’ve been.
Any democrats that vote for this need to become pariahs
But in a major concession from Democrats, it does not include an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Allowing the funds to lapse would raise insurance premiums for millions of Americans unless they are extended. Instead, the Democrats settled for a promise that the Senate will vote on a bill to extend the subsidies by the end of the second week of December, with the outcome uncertain, two of the sources said.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Instead, the Democrats settled for a promise that the Senate will vote on a bill to extend the subsidies by the end of the second week of December, with the outcome uncertain…
… Uncertain is a word used when you aren’t sure what the outcome will be.
Uncertain is certainly NOT the word to use in this situation.
Republicans in December: HAHAHAHAHAHA fuck you Dems, we vote no. Next.
And the ratchet clicks
Anyone know who the Democrats are in the “group of Democrats who teamed up with Republicans” to get to 60 votes is? I want to know the names of the ones who turned coat and caved.
Did they cave? Of course they did. Vote them out if they caved.
Everyone who caved was already either retiring or otherwise not up for reelection. Do you think it’s a coincidence that they got exactly as many yes votes as they needed? The entire democrat party needs replaced.
Love how the left is doing its usual run of hating how its side has caved, while missing the irony that the left caves every day by tolerating their right-wing neighbors for the scum they are. Like, newsflash, never mind the caving of a handful of democrats. There’s nearly half a Senate and House full of the enemy, put their by your enemy neighbors, and their reps are the real reason we’re in this mess, and the left is going to sit by and tolerate those voters rather than making their lives hell. Because the left is the “good guy,” and lose everything because the left won’t get their hands dirty. And the Right? They get their hands dirty, they suck, but they get their hands dirty, and that’s why they’re in power. Wake the fuck up. Now is not the time to be tolerant, peaceful, or moral. Fuck the idea of “Dems gotta be perfect while the Right gets to be assholes.” Treat the right as scum to be removed just as they remove citizens with ICE. That is the proper way to view them.
Not some do nothing, pat yourselves on the back ass peaceful protest. Brian Thompson deserved his death. Charkie Kirk deserved his death. Aaron Danielson deserved his death.
Why can’t we do both things
