"LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: The Trump Republican government shutdown helped crush Republicans in last week's elections. Chuck Schumer was able to hold on to those five Democratic senators until November, which meant that the bills for shocking increases in health care premiums have already been received by many Americans who will have to deal with those bills. And those bills have become vivid to all of us, thanks to the attention paid to those bills during the shutdown."
"The very same health insurance bills that caused Marjorie Taylor Greene in the Republican House of Representatives to publicly say that her party is wrong on that issue. No Democrat today said that the Democrats are wrong on that issue, but five Democrats decided to move into a compromise position. Chuck Schumer has always been easy to make fun of. The late night comedians love him for that. It would be great if he was somehow a smoother public speaker."
The shutdown ended after a compromise advanced by five Democratic senators, who voted to advance a bill to reopen the government in exchange for job protections and a promised December vote on Obamacare subsidies. Senators John Fetterman, Angus King, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, Dick Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, and Tim Kaine voted to advance the measure. The move prompted 271 Republican members, including President Trump and his allies, to change positions and accept the reopening. The health insurance premium increases became widely visible during the shutdown, prompting criticism from some Republicans. The reopened government allows Democrats to pursue questioning of the Trump administration about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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