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
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