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Civil War Breaks Out Among Democrats After Caving on Shutdown: ‘Pathetic’
Newsweek ^ | November 10, 2025 | Jordan King

Posted on 11/10/2025 8:01:15 AM PST by Red Badger

Some Democrats have spoken out against their colleagues after they advanced a deal to end the record-breaking 40-day government shutdown.

Seven Democrats and one independent voted with Republicans in the Senate late Sunday to end the shutdown, which has left federal workers without pay for more than a month.

Those who support the deal include John Fetterman, a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, who apologized to those government workers who have gone weeks without being paid, calling the shutdown a “failure.”

But several big names in the party, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, have criticized the deal and those that voted for it, with Newsom calling it “pathetic.”

Why It Matters

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has caused cascading disruptions for millions of Americans, from delayed SNAP benefits to thousands of flight cancellations and weeks without pay for hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The shutdown, which began on October 1, persisted for over 40 days as negotiations between Republicans and Democrats repeatedly stalled, largely over enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits and Medicaid funding.

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1 posted on 11/10/2025 8:01:15 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Pure comedy. And complete buzz kill from their wins last week


2 posted on 11/10/2025 8:03:33 AM PST by albie
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To: Red Badger

The Dems had momentum after their election sweep. Now they shoot themselves in the foot again by screaming that Trump won again. They can’t help themselves.


3 posted on 11/10/2025 8:04:33 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: albie

They finally realized that winning elections in Blue States isn’t a mandate.................


4 posted on 11/10/2025 8:06:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

The Democrat party is going through a transformation. Their treason coming to light, the old guard being forced out, the communist-indoctrinated young turks coming in. It’s going to be painful for them.


5 posted on 11/10/2025 8:08:00 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Red Badger

The old saying don’t believe your press clippings applies here.


6 posted on 11/10/2025 8:08:21 AM PST by xp38
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To: Red Badger

They finally realized that winning elections in Blue States isn’t a mandate.................

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Exactly…..

I’ll admit that it wasn’t good for our side but it certainly wasn’t the doom and gloom I was hearing from so many people.


7 posted on 11/10/2025 8:13:23 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: hillarys cankles

There is a generational change happening in both parties.

Time to fasten the seat belts—gonna be a wild ride.


8 posted on 11/10/2025 8:16:17 AM PST by cgbg ("The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.")
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To: Red Badger

So, lock them all into chambers and leave pallets of half bricks — winners (survivors) run the party.


9 posted on 11/10/2025 8:16:44 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: Red Badger

The Democrat leadership isn’t hateful enough to suit their base.


10 posted on 11/10/2025 8:17:49 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s amusing finally seeing the dems snatching defeat from the jaws of victory after watching the GOP do the infighting and constantly losing for so long.


11 posted on 11/10/2025 8:18:46 AM PST by Polanski
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To: hillarys cankles

“ it certainly wasn’t the doom and gloom I was hearing from so many people.”

…unless you live in VA


12 posted on 11/10/2025 8:18:46 AM PST by albie
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To: Red Badger

That’s true.


13 posted on 11/10/2025 8:18:52 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

Mere days ago they were jumping up and down, and having their media flacks pushing stories about how the Trump era was gone and the landslide elections (in hard blue areas) showed that MAGA was toast.

How these poor people can exist with this level of goldfish-brain is amazing.

Is it wrong to point and laugh at the mentally handicapped, in this situation?


14 posted on 11/10/2025 8:23:50 AM PST by greenbrier
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Shooting themselves in the foot is a good thing.


15 posted on 11/10/2025 8:27:14 AM PST by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can't wait. Go nuts kids.)
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To: albie
And complete buzz kill from their wins last week

I wouldn't exactly call those wins. They just replaced them with someone as equally or more retarded.

16 posted on 11/10/2025 8:28:16 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Red Badger

It was a complete and utter failure for the DEMONcrats. Good.


17 posted on 11/10/2025 8:28:58 AM PST by Shady (#EnoughIsEnough, and we have HAD ENOUGH!)
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To: unixfox

Except VA


18 posted on 11/10/2025 8:29:24 AM PST by albie
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To: Red Badger

The GOP did screw up but nothing as bad as the Democrats have... Back to the Wilderness with them...


19 posted on 11/10/2025 8:30:55 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: Red Badger

Now that’s a civil war I can get behind!


20 posted on 11/10/2025 8:32:17 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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