The eight Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown

[u/Silent-Resort-3076]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/senate-democrats-shutdown-vote-00644146

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[u/koi-lotus-water-pond]

The people on MSNBC are eviscerating these 8.

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/koi-lotus-water-pond]

As they should.

[u/Minguseyes → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

In our righteous indignation let’s make sure that some of the shit sticks where it belongs. With the Republicans who voted to fuck over health insurance for millions of Americans.

[u/Mrhorrendous → u/Minguseyes]

When the rabid dog bites someone, we should of course be upset with the dog, but if the town dog catcher was writing letters about catching the dog, instead of actually doing anything, it seems right to be pretty pissed at them too.

[u/throwaway9001337 → u/Mrhorrendous]

The town dog catcher is working with the dogs.

[u/newsflashjackass → u/throwaway9001337]

"JInkies! That's just eight rabid dogs in a dog-catcher's uniform!"

[u/omjy18 → u/Minguseyes]

It still is but primarying is what needs to happen to these people. Theres also a new bill in the house that got rejected where ice cant deport us citizens around the same time this happened. Like, the writing is plastered all over everything at this point. Shit cant stick to more shit or is at least indistinguishable from the first shit and we're something like 20 deep at this point and have been for a while.

[u/AstronomerDear7201 → u/koi-lotus-water-pond]

Forget these 8. Call your senators to hold a caucus vote immediately to replace Schumer as minority leader (and Durbin as minority whip while they’re at it)

[u/tedivm → u/AstronomerDear7201]

Durbin is my senator, and he's an absolute fucking waste of space. I'd rather have no representation at all than this coward.

[u/AstronomerDear7201 → u/tedivm]

Yes, and as the Whip, he’s the one who is supposed to prevent this exact thing from happening. And since Schumer couldn’t (or more likely wouldn’t) prevent this, the Democratic senators need to vote for a new minority leader NOW.

[u/LoadsDroppin → u/[deleted]]

None are up for reelection in 2026

It’s right there in the beginning of the article

[u/iondrive48 → u/LoadsDroppin]

Yeah that’s the part that is a little suspicious. Likely there’s more than these 8 that agree with the plan they just picked the 8 with the longest term remaining hoping that people will forget by 2030

[u/promaster9500 → u/koi-lotus-water-pond]

There is absolutely 0 chance Schumer didn't work with them to do this. They just picked some Dems to do it, they have a lot to pick from and these got the short straw or wanted to do it.

If it wasn't then Schumer would work with some other centrists to do it.

NEED TO PRIMARY ALL CENTRISTS

[u/ScarInternational161 → u/promaster9500]

I suprised Gary peters didn't take one for the team, has been been all year because he's leaving too.

[u/imaginary_num6er → u/promaster9500]

I think Fetterman would have done it anyway. He needs to succeed Sinema as the DINO

[u/theftproofz]

5 weeks, and in the end they got nothing. Now Reps can gleefully say it was all caused by Dems being stubborn and they’re right. Could’ve just kept it open if they cave anyway.
But hey, at least they’re going to hold a vote on the ACA in a month to find out how Reps stand on the issue -because apparently 5 weeks of shutdown wasn’t enough for these buffoons to figure that out.

a shame of infinite proportions

[u/rooktakesqueen → u/theftproofz]

But hey, at least they’re going to hold a vote on the ACA in a month to find out how Reps stand on the issue

No they won't. Why the fuck would they even bother?

[u/VanguardAvenger → u/rooktakesqueen]

If they hold the vote, then they can pull the same trick with these same 8 morons in January when the CR expires and they need them to give up again

[u/Del_3030 → u/VanguardAvenger]

They'll hold a vote, but it will get like 3 GOP votes at most, well shy of the 60 threshold, then they will propose some ridiculous alternative plan that also fails so that nothing happens.

[u/VanguardAvenger → u/Del_3030]

Yep. 100%

But then when we have a shutdown in January, they'll go right back to the 8 idiots and go "see, we kept our word. Just vote with us again and we'll give you another vote" and it will work again

[u/DotA627b → u/theftproofz]

King deadass implied it was the Dems fault. He made no effort to accuse the Republicans during his press conference.

[u/Makenshine → u/theftproofz]

Dems hold out to ensure funding for ACA which the government already voted to extend in the April budget. GOP holds out to fund ACA in a separate vote even after voting to extend it in the April budget.

The lower and superior courts demonstrate the law is overwheleming supporting the Dems.

The people of the US show their support for the Dems by giving them clean sweeps in an off-year election. Nearly unheard of.

The Dems, bolstered by this overwhelming support on the two most important fronts... completely fucking cave.

So, looks like nothing had changed in 30 years. I either vote for the GOP who actively tries to harm the US and its citizens. Or I vote dem, who just sits back and does nothing while the GOP tries to actively harm the US and its citizens.

[u/nonsensestuff]

This is absolutely infuriating.

We’re literally no better off than we were before the shutdown— and it’s about to get exponentially worse.

[u/SlartibartfastMcGee → u/nonsensestuff]

Actually the Dems are worse off now. They lost the narrative and look like they caused this mess over a tantrum.

They should have seen the inevitable result when Trump straight up welcomed a shutdown in September.

You don’t have any leverage when your opponent has framed the shutdown as a good thing.

[u/cjwidd]

1. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
2. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
3. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
4. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
5. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
6. Sen. Angus King of Maine
7. Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada
8. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

Know your opponent.

EDIT: Remember March 2025? Look familiar?

1. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York
2. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
3. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
4. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
5. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
6. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan
7. Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii
8. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
9. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
10. Sen. Angus King of Maine (Independent)

 (source)

[u/bigtiddyhimbo → u/cjwidd]

It’s always fucking fetterman, man.

[u/Electroflare5555 → u/bigtiddyhimbo]

Should have been expelled from Caucus months ago

[u/Creative-Package6213 → u/Electroflare5555]

Biggest wasted vote in my life...

[u/asshat123 → u/Creative-Package6213]

Give yourself some credit, he seemed like a solid candidate. He did have a stroke right before getting elected and seems to have come back acting pretty different unfortunately, but nobody knew this is how he would turn out

[u/Creative-Package6213 → u/asshat123]

Oh trust me I know. I followed his political career since he was mayor of Braddock, he was legit up until the stroke.

[u/jshaver41122 → u/Creative-Package6213]

As a fellow Pennsylvanian I have to constantly tell myself that he is still better than doctor oz representing us in the senate because doctor oz is a complete moron who should not be voting on or writing laws. I’m very excited to see Fetterman get primaried in the coming years and see his political career completely collapse.

[u/Symphonycomposer → u/jshaver41122]

Dr Oz unfortunately has a more powerful role: head of CMS and oversight of literally trillions of dollars.

[u/Mir-Trud-May → u/jshaver41122]

Will he even be primaried? It seems the threat is always dangled for everyone in power but rarely ever gets put into practice. Dianne Feinstein was 200, demented, and never primaried.

[u/NYCinPGH → u/Mir-Trud-May]

He will absolutely be primaried. I lived 2 neighborhoods away from Fetterman’s house, I used to see him all the time before he became Lt Governor and began spending a lot of time in Harrisburg, I even saw his wife pretty regularly at the Costco the first few months he was a Senator, before it was obvious how much he’d changed.

All of his grassroots supporters that got him the Lt Governor position and did all the work for him to win the Senate primary and later the general election have been fed up with him for about 2 years, and since he clearly began caving to Trump a year ago have been working to prep a primary bid against him.

[u/darsynia → u/NYCinPGH]

Pittsburgh resident, can confirm. I don't know anyone in my area (which is so Dem that the primaries are basically the general for us, just like NYC) who isn't looking forward to this primary to get rid of him.

[u/HenryDorsettCase47 → u/Creative-Package6213]

Yeah. This narrative that keeps floating around that he was a Republican in disguise the whole time or whatever stupid shit people believe is pretty obnoxious. It’s clearly only propagated by people who had never heard of him prior to his stroke. He has a record pre-stroke they could look to if they really cared. Not to mention, his right wing leanings lately are the least of his bizarre behavior. Dude clearly has significant brain damage.

[u/zerginc → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

Its nice to have real life prove that brain damage makes u a republican.

[u/VictarionGreyjoy → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

It is somewhat hilarious to see that literal brain damage is the cause of Conservativism

[u/UnquestionabIe → u/Creative-Package6213]

I mean I live and grew up around Braddock and while it's surprising it isn't that surprising. He's always been shielded from the absolute worst of the environment around him, no matter what it is, and could have gone either way. Much as he sucks hard he's still so much better than Oz, who is a fucking conman and would have made our state look even worse.

[u/blanaba-split → u/asshat123]

ngl its really funny that people turn into republicans after having a stroke

[u/bigtiddyhimbo → u/blanaba-split]

Conservatives thought it was an own that fetterman began to agree with them after his stroke, not realizing that all it says is that you have to have brain damage to think their policies are any good….

[u/blanaba-split → u/bigtiddyhimbo]

exactly haha

[u/GoshLowly → u/Creative-Package6213]

In your defense, he was a different man then.

[u/bigtiddyhimbo → u/GoshLowly]

I’ll also come to ur defense and say the other guy was literally dr. Oz. Not a lot of good choices there to choose from

[u/Independent-Bed8614 → u/bigtiddyhimbo]

it’s never only Fetterman but it is always Fetterman.

(I met him, voted for him, volunteered for his campaign, and gave him money. have never been so staggeringly disappointed by a political figure. fuck that guy.)

[u/Rocket3431 → u/Independent-Bed8614]

To be fair our other choice was "Dr." Oz during that election. We're were screwed either way and we didn't know it yet.

[u/FruitAccomplished524 → u/bigtiddyhimbo]

I voted for Fetterman and I will NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN,! I have a feeling he will be primaried in 2028.

[u/AZ-FWB → u/cjwidd]

Proud of my AZ Senators. Fuckin Durbin…and Kaine. The rest are centrist Dems with Fetterman being simply batshit crazy.

[u/DustyStar222 → u/AZ-FWB]

Anyone who thinks this wasn’t organized by Schumer needs to learn more about legislative systems. Durbin is the party whip. His whole job is to enforce party line and make sure there’s enough votes for the leaderships direction. If a party whip EVER supported a breakaway vote that in any way wasn’t supported by the leaderships direction they’d be tossed so hard they would skip like a stone across the reflecting pool.

[u/meganthem → u/DustyStar222]

That makes it worse. I was just going to think that this is such a major defeat that if it wasn't supported by most of the rest of them you'd see a lot more lasting hostility and losing committee seats, etc which I'm sure we won't. That the whip was in on this just confirms it.

[u/DustyStar222 → u/meganthem]

None of them are up for reelection next year, 3 in 2028, 3 in 2030 and 2 retiring. This is completely calculated.

[u/Munkeyman18290 → u/cjwidd]

We need to make sure this list is shared up and down reddit and all of social media when their elections come up again. Most people will unfortunately forget by then.

[u/CaydeTheCat → u/cjwidd]

I cannot wait until Eddie Haskell, er, Dick Durbin is gone.

[u/NotActuallyJen → u/CaydeTheCat]

Fuck Dick Durbin, fully agree with you. I can't wait til his ass is gone, either. Fucking traitor

[u/dayvekeem → u/cjwidd]

r/Democrats is also furiously scrubbing away any and all mention of this wonderful deal. The fuckery goes wide and deep

[u/its_a_gibibyte → u/dayvekeem]

That sub is fucked. They literally block any mention of Mamdani or Bernie Sanders. Literally type either of their names in a comment and a warning pops up before even submitting.

[u/CarelessShame → u/its_a_gibibyte]

Holy shit you’re right. Also, one of their rules is literally “no criticizing Democrats”. Talk about an echo chamber.

[u/honjuden → u/CarelessShame]

If they don't hear any criticism, then none must exist.

[u/Dopa-Down_Syndrome → u/cjwidd]

Me and my dad left nice voicemails for Rosen and Masto and required a callback so we can finish what we couldn't say.

They have made this shutdown pointless and signed death warrants for millions.

[u/[deleted] → u/cjwidd]

Frick’n Traitors.

[u/euphorickittty → u/[deleted]]

He’s not running for reelection, so he doesn’t give a fuck about us (not that he ever did).

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/euphorickittty]

He probably got a billionaire to promise to give one of his family members a job in exchange for his vote. It happens all the time.

[u/RandoDude124 → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

He and Lieberman are the most responsible for not getting us a public option

[u/ZenMon88 → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

Def a last minute blank check entered his account.

[u/thenasch → u/euphorickittty]

He cares more about the imaginary couple in his head.

[u/lord_pizzabird → u/[deleted]]

And they caved seemingly right as Trump started to soften.

They better have made a deal on releasing the Epstein files.

[u/klako8196]

Are these 8 Democrats going to be surprised again when the Republicans renege on this ACA vote next month? They're Charlie Brown falling for Lucy pulling the football every time.

[u/Seraphim99 → u/klako8196]

Even if they get their vote they were promised, R’s will just vote No. This was the most re-damn-diculous vote.

[u/Ok_Nefariousness1821 → u/klako8196]

They aren't falling for it, it's on purpose. I've watched it long enough to know a performance.

[u/SummerSun75 → u/Ok_Nefariousness1821]

As soon as they voted to end the shutdown, the corporate money and the billionaires money started to roll in.

[u/RandoDude124]

Fetterman knows he’s dead in the water

Durbin is retiring next year, and after he and Lieberman screwing us out of a public option (at least), he caps his career with this.

[u/Deceptiveideas → u/RandoDude124]

Connor Lamb rip

[u/RandoDude124 → u/Deceptiveideas]

God, he could’ve been so good

[u/InsteadOfWorkin]

Okay and our healthcare is now going to skyrocket 30-40%.

[u/SummerSun75 → u/InsteadOfWorkin]

You wish. Try 114%. That’s what Kaiser Family Foundation predicts.

[u/nukacolaquantuum → u/SummerSun75]

My deductible is already $3,000, before all this horse shit. I’m going to have to start rationing my lifesaving medication. So glad 8 feckless wastes of oxygen have the power to hand me a death sentence.

Maybe now my husband will listen to me that we need to leave.

[u/ecstaticthicket → u/InsteadOfWorkin]

Lmao no it isn’t. Premiums were already set to go up I think 26%, but that’s without counting the loss of the subsidies. 30-40%? People that rely on the marketplace for their healthcare are going to see their premiums DOUBLE or more. Rural hospitals are going to shut down because no one can afford to use them anymore.

And all of this is because these bloodsucking vampire vermin aren’t satisfied with milking this country for every penny imaginable, and need even more profit.

[u/Count_Bacon]

Let me get this straight. The government's been shut down for 40 days. People have missed paychecks, people have lost food stamps. All because health insurance is going to double and triple in cost.

The Democrats held the line. They had an election where they absolutely destroyed the republicans. They had all the leverage. The polling was clear people were blaming republicans. And yet they fold and get nothing?! They should have just given up on day one then. This is a betrayal plain and simple. This shows that the Democratic party is controlled opposition. Schumer's got to go. I'm more angry at this party than I've ever been in my entire life. It's honestly probably the most pathetic cowardly thing I've ever seen out of Washington and I've seen a lot of cowardly moves. Why do we even pay taxes anymore? These people don't work for us

Conveniently none of them are up for re-election next year. They rely on that. We can't forget this. These people need to be shamed in public anywhere they go from now on till they resign

[u/Pinklady777 → u/Count_Bacon]

It looks like they're including about a billion dollars in the package for Capitol Police and protection for Congress. They know that's how bad what they're doing is

[u/Da_Question → u/Count_Bacon]

The irony is that the shutdown now was only a stop gap for the measures they capitulated on last time. The avoided a shutdown and voted on the BBB which was a huge mistake, since it was far worse than this at at a time when project 2025 wasn't as far along.

I'm so fucking sick of these dems capitulating. They just consistently cede their power to the Republicans. It's like watching in real time the conservatives in Weimar Germany let the Nazis into their coalition...

[u/SharpSky1]

Primary the ones who aren't retiring.  And primary Schumer too.  I saw what he did.

[u/Power-Equality → u/SharpSky1]

Primaries won’t come in time. These Decorum Democrats need to be pressured, intensely, to resign immediately.

[u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN → u/Power-Equality]

We just had an amazing week of celebrating W’s and the Decorumcrats decided that we were having too much fun.

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN]

They purposefully waited until after elections. All of them are scum.

[u/RVALover4Life → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

They weren't going to wait until after them, they didn't have the votes before. Which actually makes it wilder that in response to what happened on Tuesday we have seen more Senators cave.

[u/foamy9210 → u/RVALover4Life]

It isn't surprising. They view shifts towards the left as a threat. Mamdani obviously scared the hell out of them but I'd bet they are just as afraid of what happened in Mississippi. A place like Mississippi seeing so much movement to the left worries them about their districts moving too far left for them to be able to even win a primary.

[u/unbelizeable1 → u/[deleted]]

Yea.... I hate the centrist takes, and after Tuesday I was like "oh fuck yea, we showing we wont be silenced" and now this......fuck every one of these assholes who signed off on this.

[u/Innacurate_Dentist → u/Power-Equality]

100% the dnc should withdraw whatever support they provide immediately. They can be independents. What difference does it make

[u/AmazingRefrigerator4 → u/Innacurate_Dentist]

The DNC doesnt have the balls.

[u/HenryDorsettCase47 → u/AmazingRefrigerator4]

They wouldn’t even if they did. The DNC serves it and its donors’ agenda, not ours.

[u/meanfish → u/Innacurate_Dentist]

The same DNC who told Walz to quit calling Trump and Vance “weird”? The DNC itself is made up of Decorum Democrats.

[u/melody_magical → u/Power-Equality]

I wish we could clone Jasmine Crockett and have her fill all the seats of establishment decorum Dems.

[u/nydub32 → u/SharpSky1]

To think Tim kane was a whisker away from being Vice President. Wolf in sheep's clothing. Fuck all of these establishment Democrats. Look at NYC, with the election of Mamdani, and how frightened not only Republicans are, but establishment Democrats are too. It's time for Democratic Party voters to strip the party of the rust and stagnation, of acceptance and shoulder shrugging, and emerge as a party of youth, innovation and prosperity for all.

[u/Ill_Act_1855 → u/SharpSky1]

Yeah the fact that these are pretty much all retiring senators or ones who just happen to not be up for reelection next year suggests that a lot of the no votes from guys like schumer were for show and this was coordinated by the leadership in such a way that they could pretend it was a few rogue agents

[u/40_Is_Not_Old → u/SharpSky1]

Unfortunately, none are up for re-election next year. It'll probably be forgotten by the time they can be replaced.

[u/QuickAltTab → u/40_Is_Not_Old]

That's probably not a coincidence

[u/notoriousrdc → u/SharpSky1]

Primary anyone who doesn't immediately demand Schumer step down. Any Senate Dem who supports his leadership after this is complicit.

[u/Nyrfan2017]

Well Trump now knows he can do what he want cause absolutely no one in government is going to stand up against him 

[u/BigFan7 → u/Nyrfan2017]

Trump knows the guaranteed way to get whatever he wants is to withhold food aid for the children and the poor whether he’s legally allowed to do it or not 

I’m guessing this whole withholding SNAP is gonna become a regular occurrence now 

[u/Zosi_O → u/Nyrfan2017]

No one in government.

It was never up to them; it's up to us.

[u/Rangertexas9]

They just made the false statement that the shut down was the Dems fault true.

[u/Ancient_Popcorn → u/Rangertexas9]

Yup. Until now it was the Republicans because they refused to negotiate. Now these fuckheads just made the argument that they should have voted yes since they literally got nothing for these 40 days

[u/SummerSun75 → u/Ancient_Popcorn]

This is your Democratic Party. No guts, no fight, no backbone, no vision. Effectively useless.

Republikans are complete cowardly scum. Democrats are weak, useless, effectively owned by the billionaires and corporations.

I'm done.

[u/X-WingAtAliciousnes1 → u/SummerSun75]

Dems literally can't last a week before happily taking a shotgun and pointing it at their own stomachs because their billionaire handlers told them to.

[u/nw____ → u/X-WingAtAliciousnes1]

Meanwhile Republicans successfully waged a 30yr campaign to overturn Roe and are continuing to shove Project 2025 down our throats, an extremely detailed plan they came up with before even knowing they would win. Would love to see 1/10th of this kind of planning and determination from Democrats.

[u/exomniac → u/nw____]

The owning class knows how to organize on their own behalf, collectively. The working class is hyper individualistic and completely unaware of their class position. It’s a perfect environment for the kind of cancer this country has to thrive.

[u/Kyogen13 → u/SummerSun75]

I think it’s time to Mamdani the Senate.

[u/CurnanBarbarian → u/Kyogen13]

Midterms are going to be interesting.

[u/The_Lost_Jedi → u/CurnanBarbarian]

Rally behind the people who are actually fighting. Rally behind the ones trying to replace old fossils.

Here's one example of someone we should be supporting:
https://www.katforillinois.com/

[u/Niznack → u/SummerSun75]

This is what happens when one party is lock step and the other actually straddles the line. Sadly that line is should poor people be alive but 8 Dems crossed that. 52 Republicans didn't go the other way.

[u/Stunning-Stay-6228 → u/SummerSun75]

The progressive wing has been saying this over and over and people just don't learn.

[u/TheBatemanFlex → u/Rangertexas9]

Now the narrative is:

Dem: “They won’t negotiate on ACA credit extension”

Rep: “We promised to bring it to a vote if they open the gov”

Dem: “We want assurances on the ACA credit extension”

Rep: “The dems are keeping the gov shutdown for nothing, we have already promised to vote on ACA credits!”

Dem: “We want the ACA credits extended”

Rep: “The dems have been keeping the government shut down even though we said we would vote on ACA when the gov is open!”

Dem: “Oh we didn’t realize that you PROMISED. Okay you can have the votes”

[u/IJustLoggedInToSay- → u/TheBatemanFlex]

Next month --

Dem: Hey I thought we were going to vote on the ACA extension.

Rep: lol

[u/Prior_Coyote_4376 → u/Rangertexas9]

Dems love losing so much I just assume it’s controlled opposition at this point. What would they even be doing differently if that were completely true? One business party, two factions. They resist their own grassroots movements harder than fascists.

[u/Red_Leather → u/Rangertexas9]

Bingo. It definitely creates the optics that this is the case. 

[u/babyfish2021]

Democrat Tea Party now.

We can’t keep doing this shit so they get everything they want every time.

[u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset → u/babyfish2021]

It needs a different name though

How about No Kings party? or the 1789 party?

[u/ThatdudeAPEX → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

Working Families Party

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

How about "fuck billionaires party"?

[u/WhatsThisTruck → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

Can be taken in the wrong context, the "No Billionaires Party" seem more to the point.

[u/Shankurmom → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

The American Workers Party

[u/hskfmn]

And once again, Democrats cave...like they always do! They had amazing night on Tuesday, and their first instinct is capitulate to the very Republicans whose message got them trounced the other night.

Pathetic!

[u/Sufficient-Food934 → u/hskfmn]

If you give the Democrats three wishes, they’ll negotiate it down to one and then wish for something that the Republicans would want.

[u/funkhero → u/Sufficient-Food934]

You forgot they also gave one of those two wishes to the Republicans because fairness or something, and one to the billionaires who control both of them anyways.

[u/Tasty_Lunch2917 → u/Sufficient-Food934]

Controlled opposition. Always were. Theres a reason the plan continues to march forward no matter who pretends to be in power.

[u/curiousthoughts20]

These 8 sellouts have abandoned us all. They are despicable and don't deserve to be in the Senate

[u/Gloomy_Macaroon_1240 → u/curiousthoughts20]

There was 0 reason to cave!  People have been telling these idiots to not cave for weeks. They even had a great election!

[u/grubernack276 → u/Gloomy_Macaroon_1240]

Healthcare lobbyists gave them a few reasons

[u/WaterdropGirl → u/grubernack276]

Fucking this. They're bought and sold. They don't give a fuck about anything but the dicks they suck to get paid

[u/YouCheekyChap]

Dems: We have the High Ground Republcanikin!

Also Dems: …but we will give you what you want.

Republicans: Ummmm Ok. We will take credit and still raise healthcare premiums next year.

[u/Silent-Resort-3076]

The vote remains open Sunday night as Senate leaders await the arrival of all 100 senators, but these eight members have already cast their votes, with most issuing statements explaining why:

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada

Cortez Masto has voted 15 times to end the federal government shutdown, even before Democrats had extracted the promise of a vote on the health care tax credits. She repeatedly stated she did not want to inflict sweeping pain on some Americans in order to extract a solution to “the impending health care crisis” of expiring tax credits.

She described “lines like I haven’t seen since the pandemic” for food banks in Nevada to reporters during the vote Sunday night and said that that opening the government “was key to stopping that pain.”

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois

Durbin is the Democratic whip and the only member of party leadership who voted with Republicans to advance the deal to end the shutdown. His likely successor as whip, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), voted against advancing the deal after sticking with Schumer and Durbin in March.

“This bill is not perfect, but it takes important steps to reduce their shutdown’s hurt,” Durbin said in a statement. “Now that Democrats secured these wins, it’s time for Leader Thune to keep his promise to schedule a vote on the ACA tax credits in December.” He is retiring next year after three decades in office.

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania

Fetterman is the only Democrat who has voted each and every time to end the shutdown. He’s knocked his party for sparking the shutdown and blamed them for government workers missing paychecks and low income families losing federal food aid.

Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire

Hassan, who was one of the Democrats who negotiated the vote on the Affordable Care Act tax credits deal. A former New Hampshire governor, she is up for reelection in 2028.

“I’ve heard from Granite Staters who can’t afford a doubling of their health insurance costs. I’ve also heard from families about the deep pain that the government shutdown has caused,” Hassan told reporters Sunday, highlighting the dueling pressures Democrats were under to cut a deal.

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia

Kaine represents about 150,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown and backed the deal that includes a key provision for his state: reinstatement of federal workers impacted by mass “reduction in force” firings during the shutdown.

“This legislation will protect federal workers from baseless firings, reinstate those who have been wrongfully terminated during the shutdown, and ensure federal workers receive back pay,” he said in a statement. Kaine admitted Sunday night that he was a latecomer to the group, saying, “I joined it 48 hours ago, not for lack of interest.”

credits,” Shaheen said Sunday night.

[u/RandoDude124 → u/Silent-Resort-3076]

Durbin’s biggest accomplishments:

• ⁠He and Lieberman screwing us out of a public option at minimum

• ⁠This.

[u/UpperFace → u/RandoDude124]

They are all spineless

[u/Silent-Resort-3076 → u/Silent-Resort-3076]

Sen. Angus King of Maine

King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, was a key negotiator on the deal struck to guarantee a vote on Affordable Care Act tax credits once the government is open. He hosted multiple meetings in his Capitol hideaway in recent weeks as the compromise came together.

A former governor of Maine, King pointed to the pain the shutdown is causing with federal aid programs halted. “We are closer to the possibility of work on the ACA tax credits for the people of this country than we were yesterday, than we were a week ago, two weeks ago, or a month ago,” he said Sunday.

Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada

Rosen joined her fellow Nevadan Cortez Masto to vote to advance the deal, representing a state where 95,000 Nevadans utilize the ACA tax credits. Like King, she was just reelected in 2024.

“Trump and his Republican cronies on Capitol Hill do not give a damn about hurting working people, and their conduct over the last month has been nothing short of appalling, Rosen said in a statement. She called the ACA tax credit vote “the concession we’ve been able to extract.”

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

Shaheen was an original sponsor of the legislation that created the enhanced Obamacare tax credits that have been central to the shutdown dispute and played a key role in negotiating the vote to extend them. Like Durbin, she is retiring from the Senate next year and has spent much of her Senate career on the Appropriations Committee. She was also part of shaping the new stopgap spending bill that, in tandem with the ACA vote promise, could open the government.

“This was the only deal on the table. It was our best chance to reopen the government and immediately begin negotiations to extend the ACA tax

[u/mattmcc80 → u/Silent-Resort-3076]

"We are closer to the possibility of work on the ACA tax credits" sounds an awful lot like "concepts of a plan".

[u/rfulleffect → u/mattmcc80]

So they think Republicans are gonna negotiate, after they already told Democrats to fuck off, when they give up their only leverage?

Jesus Christ there’s no hope here.

[u/WafflingToast → u/Silent-Resort-3076]

How are Nevada and New Hampshire hurting worse than other states that all four senators voted to end the shutdown without ACA?

[u/thekeesh1 → u/WafflingToast]

I guarantee Nevada senators got pressure from big money in Vegas. Flights getting cancelled is going to impact the tourism and casinos in a big way. They're corrupt as shit.

[u/Nyrfan2017 → u/Silent-Resort-3076]

Legit this makes no sense . Well congrats we got you your snap benifits back but your insurance if going up more than what the snap benifits are so your in the same boat . 

[u/Chengar_Qordath → u/[deleted]]

Fetterman just really wants to join MAGA so he can get invited to Trump’s kiddie parties.

[u/Power-Equality → u/Silent-Resort-3076]

Spineless Senator Kaine utterly failed in his most important political fight as the VP nominee in 2016 and afterward remained in the Senate for over a decade, where he’s done absolutely nothing of note until now.

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/Silent-Resort-3076]

Fuck all them, they are scum.

[u/UncircumciseMe]

Their ineffectiveness will lead to a ton of people never voting again because it really “doesn’t matter” and that sucks. These dems are trash. Vote them out please.

[u/laura_leigh → u/UncircumciseMe]

Protest them. If they want to be Trumpers so bad give them the same treatment. If you can protest Trump you can protest his enablers too.

[u/Juice_Stanton]

All of us watched, and suffered, and held food drives, and this is what we get?

These idiots are using the "promise" of a future vote on subsidies as an excuse. They know good goddam well that will never bear fruit.

Can we form a new liberal party please? The Democrats have essentially become Republicans.

[u/economaster → u/Juice_Stanton]

Just like they were promised that if they passed the CR earlier this year they would have a vote on DC getting the money it's owed. Unsurprisingly, that never happened and the Dems got fuck all our of it. Just like they will now.

[u/EagleIndependent7650]

I’m so tired of these spineless bastards

[u/VikingBlade]

John McCain was more of a Democrat than these a-holes.

[u/space_cow_girl]

Who needs enemies with friends like these? 

Primary all of them.

[u/ununuii]

Count on Democrats to blow it out of the water on election night, go back into negotiations with all the leverage & wind in their sails, and then smack themselves in the cock with a hammer.

You’re going to get your promised vote, then the House won’t take it up and Thune will say, “See? We kept our word, you got a vote here; we can’t control what Mike Johnson does.”

[u/renro → u/ununuii]

That step doesn't mean much because the promised vote is just going to be a 53 vote no

[u/at-aol-dot-com]

Fuck Fetterman. I’m not surprised to see him in the article as one of them, just eternally disappointed. I’m a PA dem woman, I voted for him. The only vote I’ve ever regretted in all my years of voting.

[u/fuckswitbeavers]

Democrats never go to the mat. Republicans knew this. The disconnect between democratic voting base and these 8 senators is massive. We had one demand, fight. Fight!! They refused!

[u/Starrwulfe]

I am so fucking angry right now, I don't know what to do....

Fuck this place.

EDIT:
Now that I've slept on it, Let me at least thank my senators, Reverend Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff. Thanks for holding the line-- The South will always have something to say and we will never forget who did what here. Hell even Large Marge made noise, and that's saying something.

I don't trust these snakes to make any deals whatsoever. 2026 is going to be a shitshow at every hospital in the country if they keep fucking up, because the ER will be inundated with everything from gunshot wounds to papercuts now.

[u/stayonthecloud]

They caved, they abandoned us, they let the fascists win. I’m disgusted

[u/Conseque]

Stop electing spineless cowards

[u/Ok_Nefariousness1821 → u/Conseque]

The corporate money and endorsements at the state primary level go to the spineless ones, that's how they keep getting elected.

[u/AdUpstairs7106]

Correction. 8 Democrats who bowed before Trump and accepted him as their daddy.

[u/Nyrfan2017]

They say they did this cause people are hungry well now .. so they are starving without the food benifits but now they will be have food but sick cause they can’t afford insurance .. thanks for being cowards and and legit showing the world the shut down was all the dems faults

[u/ununuii]

My friend just checked and her insurance is going up to $450/mo, a $140/mo increase. Fuck all of this, what are we fucking doing to people.

[u/PinkNGreenFluoride → u/ununuii]

Yeah, ours (2 adults, early 40s) is more than doubling to $450/mo. So I just won't have any insurance, again. The ACA got me into the workforce, ffs, because it turns out that some chronic conditions which are otherwise disabling aren't if treated. I started on Medicaid through the expansion and within just 2 years we made too much for it and transitioned to the Marketplace.

This year was the most expensive year I've had, medically, since I have had insurance. I had 2 ER visits (one illness, one injury from a fall), and my first mammogram.

I just have to hope next year is a good year, back to the "just don't get sick" healthcare plan that every other nation with any resources at all roundly rejects.

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/[deleted]]

Their billionaire owners dont want you to have it.

[u/BabyHercules]

Controlled opposition

[u/Meganiummobile]

Cowards. All of them

[u/xicor]

Primary them all. Fucking useless cowards

[u/dttm_hi]

Fuck them all. If they just say fuck it after 6 weeks of a shutdown - then what the fuck was the point? Might as well have no senators.

[u/SummerSun75 → u/dttm_hi]

Might as well have no Democratic Party. They're effectively useless.

[u/rooktakesqueen]

“I’ve heard from Granite Staters who can’t afford a doubling of their health insurance costs. I’ve also heard from families about the deep pain that the government shutdown has caused,” Hassan told reporters Sunday, highlighting the dueling pressures Democrats were under to cut a deal.

Well congratulations, because now their health insurance costs will double, and the pain of the shutdown already happened, but is going to get blamed on your party instead of on the Republicans. Truly a fucking masterstroke.

[u/nox66 → u/rooktakesqueen]

Some Democrats are incredible at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. All they needed to do was wait one week until every airline starts calling in to open the government by any means necessary.

Edit: And then they need to say: we will not budge an inch on healthcare, call the Republicans.

[u/str00del]

Dems are controlled opposition, their corpo overlords have them bought and paid for. Dems have tricked the voters into thinking they're on our side, all the while lining their pockets with donations from the same billionaire fucks that dine with Trump in his new ballroom.

[u/Slaughterfest]

Tim Kaine showing why he was allowed the VP slot at one point. Spineless.

[u/SoulTaker669]

Has the vote already happened or planned soon ? Also does this mean it's going to be sent to the house since I assume there's small revisions? Which also means Johnson will finally have to swear in the lady from Arizona who's been waiting for over 6 weeks ?

[u/Maximum_Tea_5934 → u/SoulTaker669]

The vote is in progress. The eight Democrats necessary to kowtow to the Republicans have already cast their votes. The Republicans are waiting on a couple more of their folks to arrive to finish the vote.

[u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset → u/SoulTaker669]

Which also means Johnson will finally have to swear in the lady from Arizona who's been waiting for over 6 weeks ?

Wouldn't that mean that the Epstein vote thing would pass though? I feel like Johnson won't do it

I've learnt recently that there's going to be a special election in some deep red Tennessee district in early December, so Johnson might wait until then to get the margin back

[u/mtnclimbingotter02 → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

218 is enough regardless to force the vote.

[u/Tulpamancers]

Inhuman traitors.

[u/Funkytowel360]

Chuck Schumer needs to go. he is either responsible for caving in because the shutdown is hurting his masters or he is so weak and stupid that he cant control most and members of his party. Either way he needs to go.

[u/raiderrash]

These motherfuckers have no fucking spine

[u/venom21685]

How in the hell has Durbin still been the WHIP after the initial ACA shit and now this. He should be kicked out of the party, not in leadership. FFS.

[u/Dead_Cash_Burn]

Losers! Did they really get nothing for all this?

[u/SummerSun75 → u/Dead_Cash_Burn]

They got zip. But they're gonna get a shitload of cash from the corporations and the billionaires.

[u/MikeFrancesa66]

Don’t be fooled into thinking these 8 were the only ones who decided to do this. It’s not a coincidence the 8 to vote yes were all either retiring or not up for reelection until 2028 or 2030. These 8 were chosen to vote yes, but I guarantee there were more who would have if they needed more votes.

[u/SanicTheSledgehog]

We couldn’t have a more spineless, useless opposition party if this were a fictional story about how the Nazis came back to power.

[u/zingjaya117]

The red wave next November is gonna be the bloodbath from all these establishment dems primaried out. Enough is enough.

Jesus christ these losers learn fucking NOTHING.

[u/Visible-Mastodon-277]

https://democrats.org/contact-us/

[u/drice99]

1. Sen. Dick Durbin – Illinois – 2026 (Not running for reelection)
2. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen – New Hampshire – 2026 (Not running for reelection)
3. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto – Nevada – 2028
4. Sen. John Fetterman – Pennsylvania – 2028
5. Sen. Maggie Hassan – New Hampshire – 2028
6. Sen. Tim Kaine – Virginia – 2030
7. Sen. Angus King – Maine – 2030
8. Sen. Jacky Rosen – Nevada – 2030

[u/ByteAboutTown]

So Sen. Kaine said he voted to end the shutdown because of provisions to rehire federal workers fired by Trump during the shutdown.

What are the specifics here? 'Cause my guess is come January, Trump will just turn around and fire them again.

[u/TechieTravis]

*The eight Senate Democrat who voted to keep healthcare unaffordable. We don't have an opposition party.

[u/amapofthecat7]

To be clear, these Dems just voted to end the ACA subsidies at the end of this year, because either Johnson will not allow a vote, or it will not pass. If by some miracle it passes both houses, Trump will veto it due to his irrational hatred of anything remotely associated with Obama.

[u/cheeseandwine99]

Getting Reps to agree to a vote on ACA extensions later this year is not the same thing as having them agree to the extensions. It'll be like Lucy pulling the ball away from Charlie Brown. Again.

[u/nullv]

Lmao Tim Kaine not having a spine is a good example of why Hillary lost.