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    DEMS BLINK-Team Schumer caves on filibuster, paving way for end to government shutdown

    The Senate on Monday voted 81-18 to break a Democratic filibuster on a stalled government spending bill, clearing the way for Congress to approve the stopgap measure and end the three-day government shutdown.

    Democrats effectively backed off their opposition, after being given assurances from majority Republicans.

    Before the vote, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer made clear that Democrats would supply the GOP-controlled Senate with the votes needed, in exchange for "fair" and immediate efforts to consider legislation that would protect illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children. It was a stark contrast from his position just a few days ago.

    "We will vote today to reopen the government," Schumer, a New York Democrat, said on the Senate floor. "In a few hours, the government will reopen."

    The 100-member, Republican-controlled chamber will now need only a simple majority to pass the temporary spending bill that would keep the government open until Feb. 8. The House would then have to approve the bill, sending it to President Trump's desk.

    "I am pleased that Democrats in Congress have come to their senses and are now willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders and insurance for vulnerable children," Trump said in a written statement Monday.

    Much more story at the link but a couple of Trump tweets:

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    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...-shutdown.html

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    Schumer is a weasel!

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    A big loss for Schumer and the Democrats

    (CNN)All anyone needed to know about how the #SchumerShutdown was going to end could be found in the votes of five red-state Democrats who, on Friday night, bailed on their party's leader and supported President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's position to keep the government open.

    Joe Manchin (West Virginia), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Joe Donnelly (Indiana), Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota) and Doug Jones (Alabama) bucked Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer because they knew there was no way to explain why their party was prioritizing 700,000 non-US citizens in the DACA program over nine million children who rely on the CHIP program for insurance. Four of those senators are on the ballot this November, and the other-- Jones -- just got to Washington and seems like a guy who wants to stay there when he faces re-election in 2020...

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/opini...ngs/index.html

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    Six years of CHIP funding sounds good to me.

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    And billions more in tax cuts - but who cares about the deficit, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    And billions more in tax cuts - but who cares about the deficit, right?
    BUSH, Obama spent sixteen years burning down our houses, we need to let Trump be Trump. I can't imagine you beefing about putting more money in your pocket, do you realize that acting against your own self interest is a bit insane (literally). You can have people baker acted for doing just that.

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    I enjoy seeing the Dems lose and squirm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
    I enjoy seeing the Dems lose and squirm.
    Sounds like you hate people affiliated with the Democrat party and that watching such people suffer gives you pleasure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    Sounds like you hate people affiliated with the Democrat party and that watching such people suffer gives you pleasure.
    It's a two-party crime syndicate BUT dems are definitely more susceptible to government programming. I feel sorry for them take no pleasure in their self destructive theologies.

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