"Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), in the face of staunch GOP opposition, is letting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slide away from his promise to pass legislation stabilizing health insurance premiums before year’s end."
Nevertheless, (despite being aware of the aforementioned fact) senate democrats are willing to trust McConnell:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/us/politics/government-shutdown.html
"The Senate voted 81-18 on Monday to end the three-day old government shutdown, with Democrats joining Republicans to clear the way for the passage of a short-term spending package that would fund the government through February 8 in exchange for a promise from Republican leaders to address the fate of young, undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers."
I feel really bad for the dreamers & their families. This is the only home they've ever known. & they ended up the same way they started. So in effect, it appears the democrats' efforts were for nothing. Don't get me wrong, I know this was a difficult task for the democratic party. This CNN poll did real damage to the Democrats' cause in regards to DACA:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/politics/cnn-poll-shutdown-trump-immigration-daca/index.html
"Washington (CNN) With hours to go before a midnight deadline for Congress to fund the government or shut it down, most Americans say avoiding a shutdown is more important than passing a bill to maintain the program allowing people brought to the US illegally as children to stay, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS."
A republican relative (who always watches FoxNews & calls CNN "fake news") reminded me about the CNN poll when we were discussing the issue this past weekend (I was pro-DACA, he was against). It is what it is; we can only hope the democrats have a better strategy next month (however unlikely that is). But at the end of the day, this is all Donald Trump's fault: he's the one who in effect ended DACA. One positive outcome out of this mess; at least CHIP (benefiting 9 million kids) will be funded for the next six years:
"The Senate is expected to pass Monday
a bill extending the Children’s Health
Insurance Program for an additional
six years, likely ending a funding
crisis that has plagued the state-run
health plan for the last four months."
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