Despite their party scoring key wins in the 2025 elections, eight moderate Democrats in the Senate caved Sunday, striking a deal with Republicans that paves the way to end the nation’s longest government shutdown as early as this week.
The deal, which did not include Democrats’ key demand of extending boosted health care subsidies for those who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, has frustrated many lawmakers across the party’s ideological spectrum who framed it as a betrayal of the American people.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, who does not appear to care about the pain ordinary Americans have suffered during the shutdown, seems still fixated on his effort to rewrite history about the 2020 election, granting pardons to some of the key players in his plot to overturn Joe Biden’s win, including his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to his pardon attorney Ed Martin.
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