What's up everybody? Welcome back to Trigger. This is episode 584, Wednesday, November 12th.

I'm Corey in Gannamore. Here with me, Matt Vesto. What's going on, Vesta?

Nothing much. The shutdown, it's going to end tonight.

We have 40, what are we, 43 days in now?

40 plus days of Democrats throwing a tantrum, not wanting to open the government, only,

only to take the deal that was essentially offered from the get-go and has been on the

table since mid-October.

So, yeah.

I mean, for those of you who weren't following the shenanigans up on the hill, the Democrats agreed to this grand deal, which was to fund SNAP benefits through September 2026.

The government is funded through January 30th.

And there will be a vote on the expiring Obamacare subsidies in December, which the latter of which,

again, was offered by Thune in mid-October.

October 16th, this exact same deal was offered.

They got nothing.

So, you know, we need, finally the dam broke just shows you that Chuck Schumer really doesn't have an iron grip on this caucus, like many have reported.

Eight defections, including Tim Cain.

Yeah, the Virginia delegation split.

Mark Warner voted no, Tim Cain voted yes.

A lot of wheeling and deal.

And supposedly Katie Britt was the interlocutor in terms of getting Cain onto the deal,

which was a promise for no further federal worker layoffs, which, look.

Yeah, what do you think about this?

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