far-Left base is really not happy with the end of the Schumer Shutdown. The brutal truth is that the Democrats got nothing! Even the kooky Democrat Lefties know it. EVERYONE knows it.
Here’s my prediction: Chuck Schumer is not long for this political world. At the very least he will not be able to hang on as Senate Minority Leader, but I also think there is a better-than-even chance that he won’t even be re-elected. I think AOC takes his office. Schumer is going down with this ship.
Because Democrats are furious that he got nothing out of the shutdown. Bupkis.
A disastrous shutdown for Democrats got worse Sunday when Senate Democrats folded on government funding while receiving nothing of substance in return.
There were some fig leaves for Schumer, but really not much. Almost nothing that he wouldn’t have had without a shutdown, and much that he lost because of the shutdown.
The agreement includes back pay for federal employees and guarantees that the 4,000-plus federal employees laid off during the shutdown will be rehired, as well as a blanket prohibition on future reductions in force through January 30. Those jobs are a drop in the bucket compared to the 250,000 or so the Trump administration eliminated before the shutdown.
But Democrats really got nothing, and it is pretty dang obvious. Which is why the hard-Left base is incandescently angry.
Most significantly, the agreement does not guarantee an extension of Covid-era enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies, with Democrats only receiving assurances of a vote on a bill of their choice.
“As I have said for weeks to my Democrat friends, I will schedule a vote on their proposal, and I have committed to having that vote no later than the second week in December,” Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said on the Senate floor before the vote.
Even if such a bill were to pass the Senate, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has not committed to bringing it to the floor of the House.