It's all over but the crying.
The Senate is about to vote on a compromise deal to reopen the government brokered by a handful of moderate Democrats with the promise from Republicans to have a vote on the health care subsidies that the minority chose as their hill to die on.
The end of the shutdown seemed almost inevitable after travel delays and disruptions abounded across airports throughout the weekend.
That didn't make the sting go down any easier for Democrats. They had just come off a massive high of sweeping nearly every major election less than a week ago. Leah Greenberg, a cofounder of the group Indivisible, called it a "senseless surrender."
"What on Earth does the base have to do to convince Dems they need to fight?" she texted Inside Washington.
Polling showed President Donald Trump and Republicans were losing in the court of public opinion, particularly as Trump held a flashy Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago as it tried to stop the distribution of food aid to poor people.
But Inside Washington told readers the shutdown would always end this way. Historically, the party that tries to hold up government funding to extract policy demands typically loses and gets nothing.
Shannon Watts, a Democratic activist who co-founded anti-gun violence group Moms Demand Action, told the newsletter that the shutdown strategy signaled a failure by Senate Democratic leadership, particularly Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
"There were always only two options: Democrats cave or Republicans nuke the filibuster," Shannon Watts, who founded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, texted The Independent.
Trump had begun to talk about eliminating the filibuster, putting in place voter identification laws and ending mail-in voting as a response to Democrats opposing the continuing resolution. Once that happened, it would be difficult to turn back.
"If Schumer were better at messaging and organizing we would have all understood this going into today," Watts said. "Instead of being angry at our own party, we'd be going to war with Republicans and preparing to hold them accountable over the next year. It's exhausting."
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