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What did Dems get in the shutdown fight?
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What did Dems get in the shutdown fight?

"The worst case scenario coming out of this is people throw their hands up and say, 'well, I guess politics doesn't matter.'"

Sunday’s vote to re-open the government, without the Democrats winning anything tangible, was in a word, shocking.

After a stellar performance at the polling booths on November 4th, eight Senate Democrats made the decision to abandon their party’s core shutdown demands and squander momentum.

Ezra Levin, the co-founder of Indivisible, and Jen talked about Indivisible’s plans to launch the largest primary program ever in 2026, and how else to channel outrage into action.

Then, Colin Seeberger [19:57], Senior Adviser for Communications at CAP, to pick apart what’s in the current compromise. Democrats do not have a formal, written agreement from Senate Majority Leader John Thune that the Senate will vote on ACA subsidies in mid-December.

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