On the other side of the debate, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut is one of the Democrats

who voted against the deal.

I spoke to him earlier today.

Senator Murphy, welcome back to the NewsHour.

Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

So as you just heard there, Senator Kane laid out his reasons for supporting the deal.

He says it ends the pain that Americans are feeling.

It gets a path to a health care vote. And he says,

previously, there was no evidence Republicans would even talk about a health care vote without

the government back open. Is he wrong? Well, Tim and I just have a disagreement about this.

I think we actually lose leverage in our fight for Americans now that we have capitulated Donald Trump without any real protections

for people's health care or our democracy in the short-term funding bill.

The fact of the matter is these premium increases were just being noticed to Americans.

The pressure was going to mount on Donald Trump and Republicans over the next few days and weeks

to do something about

this oncoming catastrophe. Premiums going up by 75 percent, 100 percent, 200 percent

on many Americans. I think the problem here is that the old rules don't apply. President

Trump is likely to be emboldened by winning the acquiescence of eight Democrats.

His illegality is likely to grow.

We were split on this vote last night, as we will be again later today or later this week when we vote,

but we're going to have to find a way to come together because we're going to have even tougher,

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