The Eight Senate Democratic Caucus Members Who Voted To End The Government Shutdown | GOP | N18G

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:49:37 +0000

Eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus broke ranks Sunday and voted to advance a deal to reopen the federal government.
That’s fewer than the 10 Democrats who broke ranks in March to advance a previous GOP-led stopgap funding bill — a move that sparked a huge backlash against Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
In a statement explaining his support for a deal to end the shutdown, Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, cited air traffic controllers working without pay and the limbo in which federal nutritional assistance benefits have been since the shutdown began.
Durbin framed today’s deal as progress. “At Democrats’ urging, today’s bill is not the same one we’ve voted down 14 times,” he said. “Republicans finally woke up and realized their Groundhog Day needed to end. This bill is not perfect, but it takes important steps to reduce their shutdown’s hurt.”
Senator Shaheen: President Trump, Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune, along with many rank and file Republicans, say they want to keep health care premiums at their current rate. With the government reopen, we must move quickly to deliver on that promise and to keep health care premiums affordable. The American people are counting on us to get this done.