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.
I think what the headline means to say is “In exchange for nothing, Democrats sell out their constituents”
Democrats lubed up their arseholes and bent over for the repubs. How do the do-nothing democrats make you feel now?
Sick to my fucking stomach
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.
“In exchange for agreeing to stop doing all the illegal stuff”
So, kinda?
And they’re all retiring. Don’t bother remembering their names, and instead elect good candidates. Pay attention to your local elections and don’t just vote for someone because they have a D next to their name
Frankly, these are just the ones that were most convenient for the Dems to throw under the bus. Many more are complicit, Chuck Schumer most of all. Let’s be as loud about demanding his resignation as we are about the Epstein files. He’s failed the American people far too many times.
“Chuck the cuck gotta go!” Has a nice ring to it…
Call these fuckers up. Tell them to grow a spine.
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.
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.
Democrats as so spineless. If they had even 50% of the fighting spirit that Republicans had (though they fight for things like taking away rights from minorities and taking money from the poor to give to their wealthy buddies), then we’d have universal healthcare, CONUS high-speed rail, complete renewable energy power, etc.
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
I wonder what will be “uncertain” about the Republicans killing ACA?
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.
Cool. So those departments are going away next year.
Well we knew this would end once the flights were getting cancelled. It’s all for show. 🙄
Senate democrats casually sacrificing 44 million lives so that their thanksgiving plans won’t be interrupted
Cowards. Feckless, spineless white-livered scumsucking bottom feeders.
Any democrats that vote for this need to become pariahs
Fucking pathetic.
We need to make it clear to the Democratic Party that we won’t just primary the Senators that do this. We will primary every Democrat up for election in 2026. They need to have their futures tied to the defectors. Republicans seem to be able to keep their delegation in line. Time to start playing hardball.
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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
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Schumer said he will oppose the deal.
After ensuring that it would pass without him needing to publicly support it.
Finally tally has his vote as aye.
Edit- Or at least someone posted that he had, I can’t find the actual tally on the senate or cspan sites yet and I may be wrong.
Source on that?
Just put an edit on my original post… I saw a post on bluesky showing him as a yea, but I can’t find the tally on senate or cspan sites yet, so I can’t confirm. To be honest, it doesn’t matter what his vote is, because he is either part of this deal or so ineffective as leader that he couldn’t whip the votes. And since one if his favorite gags is splitting the bad from the holdout so that the bad can pass while the holdout doesn’t, my money is on Schumer being behind it all. Notice the only i e’s who voted for it are retiring or not electing next year.
I think the blame is 100% on who voted for it. Without yes votes, it would not have passed. We should hold the ones who voted yea responsible.
