Katie Edmondson

You hear about the federal workers who have gone for weeks without a paycheck.

This agreement ensures that law enforcement, air traffic controllers and other federal workers get paid.

And one by one, it just becomes very clear that for these senators, continuing on with this shutdown was simply not tenable.

That's right.

At least that's how they voted.

There were exactly eight Democrats who voted for this deal to reopen the government.

And Michael, that was the magic number of Democrats needed in order for this deal to advance.

Not only did they vote no, a lot of them were pretty vocal in saying how frustrated they were by this decision made by some of their colleagues.

And you heard this frustration coming from a wide swath of the Democratic caucus, progressives like Senator Bernie Sanders.

But you also heard similar noises being made by people like Senator Alyssa Slotkin, who I think of as being a pretty moderate Democrat from Michigan, who said that she simply couldn't lend her vote to this effort because there was no real health care deal on the table.

And that's what she wanted for the American people.

And even Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, who is the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus, says that he is going to oppose this deal that was brokered by some of his own members.

And he says, this health care crisis is so severe, so urgent, so devastating for families back home that I cannot in good faith support this.

Now, Michael, it was really only minutes after these centrist Democrats made their declaration that they were ready to vote to reopen the government that Democrats on Capitol Hill were already hearing from their voters all across the country.

Actually, as I was standing outside of that closed-door meeting, I looked over at a senior Democratic aide who was scrolling on his phone, and his face was...

He just had a funny look on his face.

He was almost a little ashen.

And I said, oh, what's going on?

And he said, oh, I'm just looking at the reactions to this on social media.

And what he was seeing is what I think we've all seen.