Ben Shapiro

They did get a win out of this.

The win that they got was by showing that they are resistant to President Trump's agenda.

They did better than they might otherwise have in places like Virginia or Georgia or Mississippi or New Jersey or even in New York.

In other words, there is a very rabid base of Democrats who are very interested in resisting President Trump.

But the reason

that the Democratic dam is breaking regarding the government shutdown is because Democrats who are in purple states recognize that if they continue to aimlessly pound their heads against the Trumpian wall, they are going to lose their Senate seats.

That's what actually happened last night.

So according to Axios, which first reported what was going on yesterday, shutdown fatigue triumphed over anger among moderate Democrats in the Senate, which took a crucial procedural step late last night toward ending the country's longest government shutdown now in day 41.

The crucial Democrats folded on the party's biggest shutdown demand.

They wanted a one-year extension on those Affordable Care Act tax credits, which you will recall Obamacare already provides heavy subsidies to people living in states all across the country.

The Biden administration during COVID radically increased those subsidies just as they did with SNAP.

And then Republicans were going to let those things expire because the idea is we cannot forever continue to pay additional subsidies.

And Democrats lost back on the one big, beautiful bill, which did, in fact, cut back those subsidies or allow them to expire.

Democrats were attempting to use the fiscal cliff here.

They're attempting to use the non-funding of the government as a way to pry open the coffers again to continue those Obamacare subsidies, which, of course, is worth asking at this point.

Why Obamacare, which we were told is going to make healthcare cheaper for the federal government, that it was going to make healthcare ever so much more efficient.

Why is it that now Democrats are claiming there is a crisis when Obamacare is fully funded, but just doesn't have supplemental funding added on in the COVID era?

So it appears that federal workers will get paid, food assistance will flow, and flights should resume normal schedules in time for Thanksgiving.

According to Axios, after final passage by the Senate, the bill, which advanced last night on a 60-40 vote, will go to the House, where it's expected to pass and then be sent to President Trump for his signature.

So what exactly did Democrats get out of this?