Ben Shapiro

Well, they got some sort of guarantee that people who were fired during the government shutdown would come back to work.

The government will remain funded until late January, and it promises a future vote, but not a guarantee on extending that Obamacare subsidy.

Now, again, that's something that Senator Thune, the Senate majority leader, had promised weeks ago.

That was one of his early offers was, OK, here's the deal.

You extend the CR.

And then we will, in three weeks, have a vote, like an open vote, on whether to extend the Obamacare subsidies.

You guys will probably lose because you don't have a majority.

And then we'll move on with our lives.

Democrats rejected that because they were using the shutdown as leverage to apparently get Republicans to restore funding for these Obamacare supplemental subsidies.

Four former governors, Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, which is a state that is very, very purplish.

Independent Senator Angus King of Maine, again, a purplish state.

And Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, which has a bunch of civilian federal workers, right?

Tim Kaine is vulnerable because the more he votes for a government shutdown, the easier it is for his opponents to claim that he is keeping his constituents out of work.

They broke the six-week stalemate joining people like Senator John Fetterman, as well as Nevada Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jackie Rosen.

And the thing that you notice is that all of these people are from purple states.

So it's very easy for Senator Chuck Schumer from New York, not a purple state, to vote no on opening the government.

Very, very easy for Senator Alex Padilla from California to vote no on opening the government.

It's a blue state.

Or for Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts to do so, she ain't gonna lose her seat.

But if you are a Democrat,