Senate Democrats again keep federal gov't shut down

For the 11th time this year, Senate Democrats voted to keep the federal government shut down. To be fair, only a portion of the government is shut down. Most of the appropriations bills have been signed. That being said, some major bills haven't been signed.

CBS is reporting that "Senate Majority Leader John Thune is expected to bring up a bill this week that would pay federal employees and military service members who have continued to work during the funding lapse. Advancing the legislation would require support from Democrats, who blocked a long-term defense spending bill from advancing last week." Expect that to fall short of the 60 votes needed to end cloture. While the Senate keeps voting to keep the government shut, expect House Republicans to stay away.

Speaker Miker Johnson got ABC anchor Jonathan Karl to admit the quiet part out loud:

Driving the Shutdown

This is interesting:

Democratic Rep. Johnny Olszewski — whose Maryland district is home to over 20,000 federal workers — said government employees "absolutely" want the shutdown to end, but he said his constituents are also concerned about health insurance costs. "They want to go back to work, but they also want us to address this looming health care crisis," he told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett. Democrats are pressing to extend health insurance subsidies in exchange for ending the shutdown.

TRANSLATION: The ACA is a failure. It's needed bailouts each year seemingly since its inception. Remember this?

President Obama knew this was a lie when he said it the first time. According to this video, he said it 36 times in total. Now, Democrats insist on insist on another bailout. Republicans insist on fixing the problem rather than implementing another short-term patch that fixes nothing.