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This is consistent with what we reported on Saturday, though the framing is (preposterously) positive.
-Schumer was getting regular updates from the Cave Caucus
-He didn't want to be seen as pro-caving but was fine with them negotiating to cave
-Shaheen wouldn't say Schumer was working against her
-Schumer was getting regular updates from the Cave Caucus
-He didn't want to be seen as pro-caving but was fine with them negotiating to cave
-Shaheen wouldn't say Schumer was working against her
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
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November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is consistent with what we reported on Saturday, though the framing is (preposterously) positive.
-Schumer was getting regular updates from the Cave Caucus
-He didn't want to be seen as pro-caving but was fine with them negotiating to cave
-Shaheen wouldn't say Schumer was working against her
-Schumer was getting regular updates from the Cave Caucus
-He didn't want to be seen as pro-caving but was fine with them negotiating to cave
-Shaheen wouldn't say Schumer was working against her
With the shutdown I forgot to post this one. Interesting poll about Trump foreign policy and the opportunity for transpartisan coalitions on war powers and military spending.
A recent poll shows Americans are largely dissatisfied with Trump’s foreign policy. It reveals the opportunity for rare bipartisan cooperation, @ddayen.bsky.social writes:
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Poll: Trump Is Not Delivering on Foreign Policy - The American Prospect
Overall, Americans are not pleased with President Trump’s performance on foreign policy: 50 percent grade him as “poor” against 37 percent as “good,” and on a range of foreign-policy topics, he is only above water on stopping “international drug trafficking.”
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November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
With the shutdown I forgot to post this one. Interesting poll about Trump foreign policy and the opportunity for transpartisan coalitions on war powers and military spending.
The answer, as we've said, is he's misleading, but even if we're idiots and he's just incompetent at holding his caucus together it doesn't look better for him.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The answer, as we've said, is he's misleading, but even if we're idiots and he's just incompetent at holding his caucus together it doesn't look better for him.
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Hey Dick, even if Thune keeps his word that doesn't get you anywhere
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hey Dick, even if Thune keeps his word that doesn't get you anywhere
There's a version of this where he's saying "enrollees aren't even using preventive services that would be free to them" but that's also a failure of government to broadcast that these services are available.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
There's a version of this where he's saying "enrollees aren't even using preventive services that would be free to them" but that's also a failure of government to broadcast that these services are available.
Going all shutdown on our homepage right now at prospect.org. Understand what's happening, check it out!
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Going all shutdown on our homepage right now at prospect.org. Understand what's happening, check it out!
The mechanism exists.
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Individual members of the conference may recommended changes to the Rules as the need arises... and may bring that proposal directly to the Conference for its consideration w/ 1 week notice. A self-executing rule change could provide for removal and require only a majority of conference vote.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The mechanism exists.
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@shaheen.senate.gov's daughter
Improving health care has been the cause of my life. It’s why I am running for congress. So I cannot support this deal when Speaker Johnson refuses to even allow a vote to extend health care tax credits. My statement:
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@shaheen.senate.gov's daughter
This is the entire thing. They ended up with nothing on their PR point and nothing on the real discussion which was submerged. The way they shut down RIFs showed they understood how to stop the power grab and chose not to.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is the entire thing. They ended up with nothing on their PR point and nothing on the real discussion which was submerged. The way they shut down RIFs showed they understood how to stop the power grab and chose not to.
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“Any hope on the part of Schumer and the centrist Democrats getting credit for reopening the government is now swamped by the political story of Republicans dividing Democrats and reopening the government on Republican terms.”
No one could have anticipated this outcome.
No one could have anticipated this outcome.
Bob Kuttner's latest on the shutdown is brutal on the Senate Cave Caucus. He also has some reporting on the House, where nearly all Democrats will oppose this and maximize pressure on Mike Johnson to find the votes.
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Democrats Get Rolled by Their Own - The American Prospect
Coming out of last Tuesday’s election blowout, the Democrats were riding high and unified. But on Sunday night, centrist Senate Democrats, with Chuck Schumer’s tacit encouragement, voted to reopen the...
prospect.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“Any hope on the part of Schumer and the centrist Democrats getting credit for reopening the government is now swamped by the political story of Republicans dividing Democrats and reopening the government on Republican terms.”
No one could have anticipated this outcome.
No one could have anticipated this outcome.
Here's the part that gets me on the shutdown: The section prohibiting Trump from firing workers is great! But it wasn't carried through to stop rescissions & withheld funds.
That Democrats knew how to write a No Kings budget, then only passed a tiny section of it to get Tim Kaine's vote, is galling.
That Democrats knew how to write a No Kings budget, then only passed a tiny section of it to get Tim Kaine's vote, is galling.
The Most Frustrating Thing About the Shutdown Cave - The American Prospect
Senate Democrats actually know how to use their power to counter Donald Trump and ensure that legislative funding gets spent—but this continuing resolution makes it clear they chose not to.
prospect.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Here's the part that gets me on the shutdown: The section prohibiting Trump from firing workers is great! But it wasn't carried through to stop rescissions & withheld funds.
That Democrats knew how to write a No Kings budget, then only passed a tiny section of it to get Tim Kaine's vote, is galling.
That Democrats knew how to write a No Kings budget, then only passed a tiny section of it to get Tim Kaine's vote, is galling.
Bob Kuttner's latest on the shutdown is brutal on the Senate Cave Caucus. He also has some reporting on the House, where nearly all Democrats will oppose this and maximize pressure on Mike Johnson to find the votes.
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prospect.org/2025/11/10/d...
Democrats Get Rolled by Their Own - The American Prospect
Coming out of last Tuesday’s election blowout, the Democrats were riding high and unified. But on Sunday night, centrist Senate Democrats, with Chuck Schumer’s tacit encouragement, voted to reopen the...
prospect.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Bob Kuttner's latest on the shutdown is brutal on the Senate Cave Caucus. He also has some reporting on the House, where nearly all Democrats will oppose this and maximize pressure on Mike Johnson to find the votes.
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When I'm right, I'm right. From October 6:
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
When I'm right, I'm right. From October 6:
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We have some shutdown stuff coming, but I want to turn your attention to this great piece from Chris Hughes, who has really done the best analysis on what Trump economics is: not industrial policy or right populism or America First. It's rule by deal.
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Rule by Deal - The American Prospect
Donald Trump engages in ad hoc agreements with individual companies and governments to expand his power. Some observers have described these actions as a new “economic nationalism”—but that term fails...
prospect.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We have some shutdown stuff coming, but I want to turn your attention to this great piece from Chris Hughes, who has really done the best analysis on what Trump economics is: not industrial policy or right populism or America First. It's rule by deal.
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The President of the United States literally did this today and about a half-hour later won a big political victory from his nervous opposition
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November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The President of the United States literally did this today and about a half-hour later won a big political victory from his nervous opposition
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So the vote is 56-40. Cornyn hasn't voted, maybe looking over his shoulder at Paxton. (The deal torches House GOP appropriations on 3 bills.) Rick Scott, Mike Lee & Ron Johnson are holding out in the back of the chamber.
Hardline Rs aren't likely to save Democrats from themselves, but it's amusing.
Hardline Rs aren't likely to save Democrats from themselves, but it's amusing.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
So the vote is 56-40. Cornyn hasn't voted, maybe looking over his shoulder at Paxton. (The deal torches House GOP appropriations on 3 bills.) Rick Scott, Mike Lee & Ron Johnson are holding out in the back of the chamber.
Hardline Rs aren't likely to save Democrats from themselves, but it's amusing.
Hardline Rs aren't likely to save Democrats from themselves, but it's amusing.
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Prescient
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Prescient
Peters and Ossoff were two of the Gang of Eight, and now that they see the votes were gotten elsewhere and how bad it's playing with the base, they both voted no.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Peters and Ossoff were two of the Gang of Eight, and now that they see the votes were gotten elsewhere and how bad it's playing with the base, they both voted no.
People are saying there's no upside to this deal. Wait a second. Isn't the end of Chuck Schumer's political career an upside?
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
People are saying there's no upside to this deal. Wait a second. Isn't the end of Chuck Schumer's political career an upside?
Shut it down, win the election, then give up
People can't change their vote after they cast it
People can't change their vote after they cast it
a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
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November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Shut it down, win the election, then give up
People can't change their vote after they cast it
People can't change their vote after they cast it
Dem ayes so far:
Hassan, Shaheen, Durbin, Kaine, CCM, King, Rosen
GOP nos:
Paul
One more D needed for 60 and Fetterman will be it.
Hassan, Shaheen, Durbin, Kaine, CCM, King, Rosen
GOP nos:
Paul
One more D needed for 60 and Fetterman will be it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Dem ayes so far:
Hassan, Shaheen, Durbin, Kaine, CCM, King, Rosen
GOP nos:
Paul
One more D needed for 60 and Fetterman will be it.
Hassan, Shaheen, Durbin, Kaine, CCM, King, Rosen
GOP nos:
Paul
One more D needed for 60 and Fetterman will be it.
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
He's on the Appropriations Committee. As is Shaheen.
They want their little legacy to be a minibus appropriations bill that Trump will be withholding half the money from in a matter of months
They want their little legacy to be a minibus appropriations bill that Trump will be withholding half the money from in a matter of months
Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
He's on the Appropriations Committee. As is Shaheen.
They want their little legacy to be a minibus appropriations bill that Trump will be withholding half the money from in a matter of months
They want their little legacy to be a minibus appropriations bill that Trump will be withholding half the money from in a matter of months
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Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.
On first round of voting on cloture for the cave, Baldwin votes no—she was part of the Gang of 8 talks. Rand Paul is also a no.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
On first round of voting on cloture for the cave, Baldwin votes no—she was part of the Gang of 8 talks. Rand Paul is also a no.