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Democrats were never going to win the shutdown fight

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 5, 2025. | Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Key takeaways Though Democrats felt they were winning the politics of the shutdown fight, they’d made no progress on their specific substantive demands  The only plausible endings to the shutdown were Democrats caving or the GOP abolishing the filibuster; Trump wasn’t making concessions With shutdown pain ramping up, and Democrats fearing a world without the filibuster, key members of the party cut a deal Aft...

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