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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
The Shumer Shutdown has no end in sight.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't believe this is true. My belief is that they are holding out until the elections tomorrow and then they're going to cave and give in by the end of the week.

They'll just spew the same anti-Trump stuff they always do and the government will reopen and 3 weeks from now nobody will remember any of this happened.

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It was the first time in more than a month that congressional Republicans succeeded in persuading a sizable number of their colleagues across the aisle to join them in supporting a shutdown off-ramp.

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Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with the Democrats, explained why he and seven others joined Republicans on Sunday night to vote to end the government shutdown after 40 days.

"It wasn’t working," King said when asked what the 40-day shutdown accomplished. "How long would it take to not get a response to say it isn’t working? In other words, it’s been six weeks. The Republicans made it clear they weren’t going to discuss the health care issue—the Affordable Care Act tax credits—until the shutdown was over."

"Here’s the way I would put it: as I assessed it, there was zero chance of dealing with the ACA issue as long as the shutdown continued. Now, I don’t know—maybe fifty-fifty," he said.

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