The shutdown ends and does Trump get it on affordability?

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So, Audrey, the shutdown is finally ending.

Charlie and I need to take a victory lap. Our predictions on the imminent end of the shutdown were correct,

Charlie, I only give you credit for correct predictions that accord with my own. So you're

golden on this episode. So Democrats didn't take the blame politically

the way I would have expected. The polling held up okay for them. It was pretty much an even

question tipping towards the Republicans on who was to blame. But as the pain points escalated here, moderate Democrats realized they just

weren't going to get anything from this. And sure enough, what they've gotten is an assurance

of a vote in the Senate on extending Obamacare subsidies, no assurance on an outcome, no assurance

of a House vote, certainly no assurance that President Trump would sign

an extension if it passed both houses. So this escapade substantively got them pretty much nothing.

Yeah, I think that's mostly right. I mean, the fact that we, they ended up caving to what John Thune had offered

them weeks ago is a little bit funny here, right? Republicans had repeatedly said over and over again

that they would promise to, you know, have a discussion with Trump and congressional Democrats over

what a potential deal might look like to extend these enhanced

Affordable Care Act subsidies, which were, again, created by Democrats and extended by Democrats.

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