Serious Question

Shaheen: 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 credits that tens of millions of Americans rely on to keep costs down. pic.twitter.com/4C9Snab4We

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 10, 2025

A) Does this mean SNAP funding can be released imminently? If so, does this mean that it will be? And will it be soon enough for 16 million people to have something to eat on Thanksgiving?

B) Will air travel resume as normal in time for Thanksgiving, the single largest travel holiday in the calendar? Even Sean Duffy says “No.” Is there any gain if people have to scrap their travel plans anyway? Won’t they think that problem relates to the shutdown, and it didn’t get solved?

C) What are you going to do about ICE? It’s now associated with the shutdown, for better or worse. This may further discourage support for a party that decries ICE but yields to the man you just yielded to.

Schumer: From cutting off food aid to hungry families, vets and seniors and kids to manufacturing flight cancellations while he builds $1,000,000,000 ballroom with gold plated toilets. Therefore, I vote no. pic.twitter.com/SDb2az8f2Y

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 10, 2025

I’m sure the Noble 8 thinks they’ll get to vote on all this, too.

Well, I can’t write off the entire party over this. I can write off these 8 Senators; like they’ll care. Oh, well. Dese are de conditions dat prevail.

On the upside, Trump’s never gonna get the filibuster abolished now. And he still doesn’t know how to govern. Government by shutdown is not governance at all. Nobody gets a gold star for it. And Trump’s wilder efforts at controlling elections just turned up their toes. Gotta take that from it.

And if the GOP insists on standing by the death of ACA, a death that was a part of the Big Ugly Bill, at least that’s front and center now. The shutdown made them wrap their arms around the ACA, and squeeze until it stopped breathing. The shutdown accomplished that.

Who knows what it will accomplish next November?

Gotta play the long game here.

BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.” pic.twitter.com/KWQLeGmVlM

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) November 10, 2025

I appreciate Bernie’s argument, but I have to play Devil’s Advocate. Government shutdowns eventually become meaningless gestures, too. This one has been the longest in history, and forced Trump and the GOP out into the open on their desire to destroy ACA. Their last attempt was the most pathetic: give the money to the people, not the evil Insurance companies, so the people can give the money to the…evil insurance companies?

May it was time to end the shutdown, before the inconvenience overshadowed the ugly truth.