What did Senate Democrats get out of the 40-day Schumer Shutdown? Nothing more than what they would have had with the clean continuing resolution.
Chuck Schumer’s caucus threw in the towel last night, with at least ten Democrats plegding to vote to end the filibuster on the CR. The Senate will replace that CR with new language that would extend government operations until the end of January while negotiations continue on the FY2026 budget. Forty days ago, Schumer demanded passage of an extension of expiring ObamaCare subsidies, plus repeals of Medicaid changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill that eliminated coverage for illegal aliens.
So what did Democrats end up getting for this biblical walk in the idiotic budget wilderness? A promise for a vote on the ACA subsidies, with no guarantee of GOP support:
Latest on breaking news from Hill — Sources say that enough Senate Ds will vote to advance bill to fund govt through Jan. 30. A separate stand-alone vote on ACA by December.
SNAP through fiscal 2026
Reversal of fed firings.Shutdown poised to end sometime this week. pic.twitter.com/K1thtFYbzc
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 10, 2025
“We may not have gotten everything we wanted”? Democrats didn’t get anything they wanted. They didn’t eveb get a pass on the filibuster for the debate on ACA subsidies, let alone a commitment for an extension. We’ll get back to that in a moment, but the only real concession in this deal from the GOP is a pledge to rescind the layoffs that Russ Vought began, and those only took place because Schumer shut the government down:
A handful of Senate Democrats on Sunday indicated they are ready to advance a package of bills that could end the government shutdown, multiple sources told Axios.
Why it matters: It is the most significant movement toward a bipartisan breakthrough in the talks to reopen the government in over a month.
- At least 10 Senate Democrats are poised to support a procedural motion to advance a package of spending bills and a short-term funding measure through the end of January, multiple sources from both parties told Axios.
- The deal includes a December vote on a Democratic proposal to extend ACA tax credits for one year, multiple sources said. It would take 60 votes to pass.
- It also includes language aimed at providing assistance to federal employees who were laid off during the shutdown, as well as a provision to fund SNAP benefits through Sept. 30.
The “provision” on SNAP is the Agriculture-FDA appropriation bill. That’s not a concession; it’s one of the dozen bills that would form the discretionary part of the federal budget. That bill and two others are ready for passage. Senate Majority Leader John Thune had already put them into a so-called minibus.
As for the “concession” on ACA, it’s not a concession at all. Donald Trump has expressed concern about the impact of the expiration of subsidies, which will hit ObamaCare customers like a tax hike five years after the pandemic for which the subsidies were implemented. Trump and the GOP want to restrict and reduce them, and the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill planned to work on this regardless of what happened with the CR.
It may infuriate conservatives who warned about the political trap these “temporary” “emergency” subsidies created — because we were right. Unfortunately, retiring Sen. Thom Tillis is correct about the political reality for Republicans as the midterms approach:
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis to me on Thursday: “If we don’t work on a smart glide path for the Obamacare subsidies, that too will be something that will produce headwinds for Republicans in the midterms.” pic.twitter.com/w688xSBrK5
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 10, 2025
Subsidize in haste, repent at leisure.
However, the point remains that a promise for a vote at some point on the ACA subsidies is no concession at all. That vote would have happened with or without the shutdown. Rescinding the RIFs may be a concession of some sort, but the RIFs wouldn’t have happened in the first place had Schumer not shut down the government. The agreement includes back pay for furloughed workers, but that’s SOP in shutdown deals. The fact that Democrats couldn’t even get an agreement to bypass the filibuster on ACA subsidies means that Schumer came away wlth literally nothing at all.
The Schumer Shutdown has been an utter clown show. And you can bet that the Left will figure it out sooner or later, and I’d bet on sooner.
Update: Sooner, baby, sooner!
JUST IN: Democrat Rep. Brendan Boyle says he is completely “perplexed” after 8 Democrats voted to re-open the government.
MSNBC: Can you explain how you interpret why this deal came together now?
Boyle: I can’t explain it because to be frank, to me, it makes absolutely no… pic.twitter.com/6tZMySq01q
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 10, 2025
Boyle: I can’t explain it because to be frank, to me, it makes absolutely no sense. I am completely perplexed by today’s developments.
Schumer played a losing hand and lost. It’s not difficult to explain at all.
Update: And here’s one from the cheap seats:
Pathetic.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 10, 2025
Schumer will have a lot of explaining to do.
Update: Just FYI, most of the flips won’t have to face voters next year:
CCM — Not up until 2028
Hassan — Not up until 2028
Shaheen — Not running again
Kaine — Not up until 2030
King — Not up until 2030 https://t.co/RwL9DyvY4l— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 10, 2025
House Democrats will have to go along with this, though, and all of them face voters next year.
Update: No one’s buying the idea that SNAP funding was a win or concession for Democrats:
I get that ending the shutdown means SNAP is back on and that’s good, but that’d be true under any CR or Ag bill, save one that specifically altered SNAP in an anomaly. 2/2
— Matt Glassman (@MattGlassman312) November 10, 2025
Exactly. SNAP funding would be covered by the CR too. The reason why it’s guaranteed beyond the January 30 date for the new CR is that they will pass the Ag-FDA appropriation for FY2026 as part of the minibus accompanying the new CR.
Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is still here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.
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