The eight democratic defectors who joined republicans to reopen the government are facing widespread criticism from within their party. Eight senate democrats defect and vote for shutdown deal the u.s Senate voted sunday by the slimmest of margins to end the government shutdown Sixty votes were needed to overcome the filibuster in the senate and the bill got the bare minimum when eight senate democrats joined republicans on the vote. The 8 senate democratic caucus members who voted to end the shutdown there are few obvious threads connecting the group who broke the partisan impasse. Senate democrats probably assumed as much when they shut down the government
Perhaps they thought they were giving partisan activists something to root for, even fleetingly, before eventually caving. At least eight moderate senate democrats are meeting in hopes of finding a deal to end the monthlong government shutdown, but sources familiar with the closely held conversations say they will.
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