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This is 100% incorrect. Come January, if the Democrats try to drag their feet on funding the government again, the Republican fascists can simply pass a continuing resolution to override the Democrats and prevent another shutdown. Those eight Democrats just gave up the only leverage they'll ever have to bring back ACA subsidies.
(The reason the Republicans couldn't just pass a continuing resolution now to end the shutdown is that it can only be done once a year, and they already burned it on the Big Ugly Bill.)
Thanks, that seems to be context I was missing and does change my read on this pretty substantially. Someone else made the same point earlier, but without the specific details about the procedural hows and whys.
That would still force the GOP to burn their one CR for the year in January, which is not nothing, but I can absolutely agree that it's far less leverage than I'd initially taken it to be.