After more than 40 days, the longest government shutdown in American history is nearing an end. It broke the record that was previously held by – you guessed it – Donald Trump during his first term. However, the deal that was agreed to by Republicans and a handful of Democratic senators is hardly satisfactory to anyone.
Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky
The deal to end the Trump Shutdown consists mainly of a promise to hold a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies after the government is open. It also guarantees that fired federal employees will be rehired, and others will receive backpay. Most importantly, it funds SNAP benefits for one year to keep families from starving while Republicans held them hostage to their demands to kill Obamacare.
SEE THIS: Trump’s New Plan to Kill Obamacare Would Cost People More and Make Insurance Companies Richer
Many Democrats are not pleased with the deal. They are disappointed that they went through this melodrama without getting significant concessions from Trump and his MAGA minions in Congress. But Republicans aren’t especially thrilled either. They will still have to vote on the ACA subsidies in a couple of months, when they will face another potential shutdown. In the meantime, they will suffer politically for having adopted such a cruel agenda that harms children and seniors.
It is notable that Republicans aren’t taking much of a victory lap upon nailing this down. In fact, they are making excuses and running from questions about the deal that they orchestrated. Among their weakling apologists is Trump’s administrator of the Centers for Medicare Services, “doctor” Mehmet Oz. He dashed over to Fox News for an interview with their Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, to try to spin the deal as a win for the GOP. It didn’t go very well.
BARTIROMO: How do you want this to play out once the ACA subsidies expire?
DR OZ: We have lots of great ideas, but I don’t want to show our cards. As the president often says, why would I telegraph to you what we’re gonna do. We have to have an open government.
BARTIROMO: How do you want this to play out once the ACA subsidies expire?DR OZ: We have lots of great ideas, but I don't want to show our cards. As the president often says, why would I telegraph to you what we're gonna do?
REALLY? Oz wants to know why he should “show our cards” to reveal Trump’s healthcare plans. How about because that’s his freakin’ job? This isn’t a top secret military mission. It is a public servant describing what he’s doing on behalf of the people he is supposedly there to serve. It’s his obligation to keep the people informed so that they can make decisions about whether or not these bureaucrats are performing up to their expectations. But Oz has the gall to refuse to tell the people what he’s going to do, and in the same breath say that “We have to have an open government.”
The claim by Oz that he has “lots of great ideas” is obviously a lie. If he did he would be proud to say what they are. But Republicans have been pretending to have an alternative to Obamacare for ten years. And for that entire time they have never presented it to the public. Trump himself has promised his plan in the oft-repeated “two weeks” that has never materialized.
So now we have another promise of a healthcare plan that for some reason needs to be kept secret. And this is the stance that the Trumpists are taking in the wake of their Trump Shutdown. Trump et al will undoubtedly endeavor to spin this as a win for themselves. That’s a lie. Trump and Republicans are already taking the heat for this fiasco. So we shouldn’t help them by bashing our side and suppressing turnout in the future. We are winning and we need to keep up that momentum.
TRUMP AND THE GOP ARE TOAST…? "November has the worst ever consumer sentiment of current conditions since 1951."? "More than 3 in 5 Americans (61%) say that Trump's policies have worsened economic conditions in America."
— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T20:16:48.783Z
What’s more, even if Democrats got the ACA subsidies from the Senate, the House GOP would have voted them down. We could not allow people to starve in the meantime. Democrats need to point that out and, conversely, deploy their own spin as it being a Democratic win. Whether you believe it or not. Our goal needs to be longer term. We need to win elections in 2026 and 2028 and beyond. Unless you think that Republicans would be better.
RELATED STORIES:
- WTHolyF? Trump Falls for Phony Meme Saying Obama Received Millions in Royalties for Obamacare
- Republicans Learn Nothing From Their Electoral Spanking, but Trump Learns to Savor Dictatorship
- Trump Accuses Chuck Schumer of Being ‘Almost Treasonous’ Just for Criticizing Dear Leader
Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.And check out my books on Amazon:
Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.Thanks so much for your support.
Thank you for some common sense! At first, I was angry that the Dems had “caved.” The more I thought about it, however, the more I realized it actually worked out well.
1. Like you said, Rethuglicans hate Obamacare and don’t won’t bend even if the shutdown had gone on for weeks longer.
2. In those weeks, what if there had been a major disaster, such as an airplane crashing due to an overworked and tired air traffic controller? One, that would have been horrible, and two, the GOP and their rightwing propaganda machine (and I include outlets like Ballroom Bezos’ editorial board in that as well as the new CBS) would have blamed the Dems.
3. Dems made sure federal workers will be rehired, won’t be fired without cause and will get back pay. Lots of federal workers in Virginia (Tim Kaine did his job), and they will remember that in 2026 and 2028.
4. SNAP benefits are back, right before Thanksgiving.
5. Dems forced the GOP and their dear leader to show their asses. They are now the party who would go to court to take food out of the mouths of children and who don’t care if people can afford health care.
6. With the government open, Adelita Grijalva was sworn in. Hello Epstein files!!!!!!!
7. Dems got a promise of a vote on ACA (from proven liars, no rose-colored glasses here), and who knows what will happen by then? Marjorie Taylor Greene is furious about rates skyrocketing. If she’s on board with the Dems, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if she brings a few of her friends with her to vote with the Dems. I think some of them are realizing that Metamucilini is a very lame duck, and they are slowly starting to step away from him. They’re doing it on the Epstein files, and they might on the ACA when they start hearing from their voters who can no longer afford insurance.
All in all, the GOP got absolutely nothing in this deal, On the other hand, the Dems got everything listed above, and they got their anti-GOP ads for 2026 and 2028 on a silver platter.
Thanks. Very well said.