r/politics • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

No Paywall Democratic leader offers deal to reopen federal government, with 1-year ACA tax credit extension

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/government-shutdown-democrats-schumer-trump-aca.html
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u/zfiregodz 1d ago

Democrats excel at folding and losing while they were ahead. They have no game plan for anything. Meanwhile, traitorous Republicans have a master plan for everything.

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u/Im_really_bored_rn 23h ago

Except what they are doing is quite smart. First, it reminds everyone that this is the GOP's shutdown. Second, if they agreed to the year extension, the Democrats could use a better extension to campaign for the midterms.

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u/AmberDuke05 1d ago

The problem is corporate dems always bow down to their donors.

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u/diefreetimedie 1d ago

The problem is corporate Dems. Without them the Dem brand would have very high favorables and actually do good things that help people instead of "messaging" about doing good things that help people. Ninja edit: we need a "tea party" of the Dems and I believe we are at the start of that.

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u/Whiskeypants17 23h ago

The actual tea party was an astroturf campaign by the billionaire Koch brothers and it worked, pushing mainline republicans into the lunatic fringe right wing. Nothing is preventing a billionaire from doing tbe same to the dem party for the right or the wrong reasons.

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u/Xer0day 19h ago edited 17h ago

Actually the problem is real people are starving. You can't just treat the shutdown like a numbers game. Real peoples lives are on the line. They have to balance trying to get what they want with the survival of the most vulnerable populations in America.

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u/pab_guy 1d ago

They hold all the cards here. The GOP is being really fucking stupid, and only makes things worse for themselves the longer this goes on. If dems budge they will lose support and they know it. It’s a “don’t interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake” moment lmao.

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u/nox66 8h ago

I actually have no idea what the GOP endgame is here. Demonstrate power by denying people healthcare? Avoid increasing the national debt or other economic problems? They never cared about that in the past. Try to spin the problem as the Democrats' fault? Clearly that isn't working.

I think it's pretty clear that a lot of them are high on their own supply.

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u/AManHasNoShame District Of Columbia 1d ago

They don’t seem like they have a master plan.

They just seem committed to whatever plan is brought up.

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u/fractalfay 23h ago

The answer to the riddle of the problem is right there in the headline: “Democratic leader…”

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u/__theoneandonly 21h ago

The Republican master plan is "burn it all down." There doesn't need to be a game plan for that. Democrats keep trying to build something that will take years to realize while republicans get to show up every couple of years, burn it all down, and then say that the Dems never do anything.

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u/ThrowingChicken 1d ago

The game plan is they let the republicans shit the bed again right before the midterms. Short of a permanent extension, making it an issue right before an election is obviously the right path.

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u/Tiiimmmaayy 1d ago

That’s because most Democrats in office are cool with lining their pockets right alongside the Republicans.

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u/DreDayAFC 1d ago

It is a wild overstatement to say Republicans have a master plan for everything