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Dulcinea

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Sat Oct 11, 2025, 05:47 AM Oct 2025

Democrats win momentum over GOP in shutdown fight

(The Hill) As the shutdown fight stretches into its second week, the winds have shifted in favor of the Democrats — at least for the moment.

Early polls say voters are more likely to blame President Trump and the Republicans for the lengthy impasse. The president and his congressional allies are publicly at odds over compensation for furloughed workers. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is sending mixed messages on whether to protect military pay. And prominent cracks are emerging in the GOP’s resistance to extending ObamaCare subsidies.

The combination has put Republican leaders on the defensive, even as they’re faulting Democrats for the long impasse. And the developments have boosted the Democrats’ confidence that they’ll be able to maintain their unified front, both in opposing the GOP’s short-term spending bill and demanding an extension of ObamaCare tax credits, which remains the issue at the center of the deadlock.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-win-momentum-over-gop-100000558.html

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Democrats win momentum over GOP in shutdown fight (Original Post) Dulcinea Oct 2025 OP
We need to keep reminding people there were no no shutdown storing Biden's administration Walleye Oct 2025 #1
We supposedly had momentum last fall... Omnipresent Oct 2025 #2
I guessed this was from The Hill gab13by13 Oct 2025 #3
Just keep it up.... no concessions!! InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2025 #4

Walleye

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1. We need to keep reminding people there were no no shutdown storing Biden's administration
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 05:50 AM
Oct 2025

Even when he had a hostile House of Representatives

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