Democrats sift through shutdown's ashes after resistance finally breached

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The current Affordable Care Act tax credits, which were created under Joe Biden, were to expire at the end of the year, and they wanted them extended.
46% : After 42-day standoff, government is back open - and minority party won no concessions from party in power More than 42 days ago, beleaguered congressional Democrats employed a tactic they were not known for using - refusing to fund the government unless their demands, in this case, an extension of tax credits that lowered costs for Affordable Care Act health plans, were met.
39% : The country's main foreign aid agency was closed, droves of federal workers were fired or urged to resign, the premier federal health program for poor and disabled Americans was downsized and tax cuts directed at businesses and the wealthy were extended forever.
35% : They also wanted the cuts to Medicaid reversed, and an undoing of Trump's use of rescissions to slash congressionally approved funding.

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