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Am I pissed?
Yes.
Are people going to get their SNAP so they can eat and will federal employees start getting paid again and will we avoid a catastrophic holiday travel season and can we shut the government down again in a few months if Republicans don't honor their word, which they won't?
Yes.
This only keeps the government open a while longer. If they fuck around again, they can find out again.
I'd like to think this is a strategy on the Dem's part to show the country that the Republican party is willing to repeatedly shut down the government and hurt Americans instead of coming to the table and negotiating and that the Dems want to make sure people don't starve. I doubt that's it and it's most likely just cowards within the party caving to corporate interests.
Primary them.
They can just pass a budget with a simple majority in January, the republicans have no reason to honor anything they agreed to. The democrats sold out their position.
They did this to head off a left reaction. That is all.