Brian Laird on WNYC.

So about that government shutdown.

Now we'll have a call in for Democrats on the party's move this week to end it.

Are they being smart or are they being weak? 212-433

W-NYC, 212, 433-9-6-92. Are you for it or are you against it? Do you think it's a path to success

or failure on the central issue of Obamacare health insurance premium subsidies and a path to success

or failure in next year's midterm elections.

212-433-9692.

Again, a call-in for Democrats on the party's move this week to end the government shutdown.

Are they being smart or are they being weak?

Do you think it's a path to success or

failure on Obamacare health insurance premium subsidies and a path to success or failure in next

year's midterms? 212-433-9-692. You can call or you can text. Now, many news outlets are

reporting on a furious backlash from progressive Democrats.

As The Guardian reports to the divide, just to take one example,

seven Democrats and an independent face fury over support to advance funding bill amid 40-day shutdown.

And if you didn't know who those Democrats were, they were

senators Gene Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Tim Kane of Virginia, Dick Durbin

of Illinois, Catherine Cortez Mastow, and Jackie Rosen, both of Nevada, John Federman of Pennsylvania,

and the Independent was Angus King of Maine. And as NPR reports the details, the funding package

includes a trio of appropriations bills, including one that will fully fund the SNAP program

through September, all the way through September of next year, the whole federal fiscal year.

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