House votes to end shutdown Wednesday as Democrat says party ‘crossed a line’ putting politics over country: Live

Trump appeared to suggest that, after years of failing to come up with a plan to replace the federal healthcare law with his own, he might have a name for it.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is “disappointed” by Senator Dick Durbin’s vote for a temporary funding measure to end the government shutdown.

Durbin is among eight Democrats who joined Republicans to support the measure.

Pritzker, who is embroiled in several legal battles with the Trump administration, said that while he has “enormous” respect for Durbin, he disagrees with his vote.

“I do not think that the eight members of the Senate that voted the way that they did should have done that,” he told reporters Tuesday.

“We had an opportunity to make sure that we were protecting people’s health care across the nation,” he added. “I’m disappointed. I think more could be done here. But there is another opportunity in January. We’ll see what happens.”

Durbin, for his part, counted several provisions in the measure as Democratic wins in a lengthy statement Monday night.

“Today’s bill is not the same one we’ve voted down 14 times,” he said. “Republicans finally woke up and realized their Groundhog Day needed to end. This bill is not perfect, but it takes important steps to reduce their shutdown’s hurt. Not only would it fully fund SNAP for the year ahead, but it would reverse the mass firings the Trump Administration ordered throughout the shutdown.”

He called on Majority Leader John Thune to “keep his promise to schedule a vote on the ACA tax credits in December and we will see to it that he makes good on his word for the millions of Americans worried they won’t be able to afford health care in January.”

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, among eight Democrats who supported the GOP’s White House-backed funding measure, accused fellow Democrats of having “crossed a line” by holding out.

Following outrage with Democrats who abandoned the shutdown battle over Affordable Care Act subsidies, with calls for Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step aside, Fetterman told Fox News that his vote was about putting “country over party.”

The loss of SNAP benefits for millions of Americans was “a red line for me that I can’t cross as a Democrat,” Fetterman said Tuesday.

It is the Trump administration, however, that is refusing to fund SNAP, despite contingency funds and court orders to fully fund the program under legal obligations to keep it alive.

The Trump administration is accused of illegally stripping retirement benefits from transgender service members despite the decades of service among them.

A new lawsuit from 17 trans troops just before Veterans Day accuses the administration of revoking their retirement orders under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban on trans people serving in all branches.

The day after the Senate’s passage of a short-term spending bill to reopen the government, airlines are expected to cancel 6 percent of flights at 40 major airports in compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s travel cuts during the shutdown.

That marks a significant spike up from the weekend’s initial 2 and 3 percent cuts, which are set to gradually increase to reduce traffic hazards over staffing issues.

More than 1,200 flights were canceled within the U.S. by Tuesday afternoon, according to tracking website FlightAware,

Hundreds of other flights had been delayed.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters earlier Tuesday that air travel could inch back to normal by Thanksgiving, depending how fast Congress moves and if air traffic controllers are “showing up to work” after two missed paychecks.

Trump’s appearance at a ceremony intended to commemorate America’s veterans at Arlington National Cemetery Tuesday devolved into an airing of grievances as the president renewed complaints about this country’s tradition of commemorating those who fought and died in past wars — rather than commemorating the wars themselves.

Senate Republicans, fresh off a victory in the shutdown fight, are open to Democratic demands to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, and contribute to exploding insurance premiums for millions of Americans.

But on one condition: Democrats must allow stricter rules against abortion.

Federal law blocks public funds from covering abortion care, though some states allow people insured under Obamacare to access abortion coverage using state or other funding.

That’s where Thune wants Democrats to fold.

“That’s what we’re going to negotiate,” Thune told reporters Monday.

Chuck Schumer’s inability to manage expectations or secure votes from Republicans has left him looking impotent and adrift at a time when Democratic voters want their leaders itching for a fight.

House Republicans are unlikely to win over Democratic support for a Senate-backed measure to reopen the government.

But House Democrats are coming out swinging, underscoring what they see as the GOP’s critical threat to Americans’ healthcare.

A group of more than 100 “pragmatic” House Democrats have stressed that “any bipartisan deal to open the government must necessarily address the Republican-created healthcare crisis and prevent out-of-pocket healthcare costs from skyrocketing for tens of millions of Americans.”

“Unfortunately, the Senate-passed bill fails to address our constituents’ top priorities, doing nothing to protect their access to healthcare, lower their costs, or curb the Administration’s extreme agenda,” the New Democrat Coalition wrote Tuesday.

Progressive Democrats in the House are also opposing the effort, with caucus chair Greg Casar calling the GOP deal a “betrayal.”

“A deal that doesn’t reduce health care costs is a betrayal of millions of Americans counting on Democrats to fight for them,” he said. “Republicans want health care cuts. Accepting nothing but a pinky promise from Republicans isn’t a compromise — it’s capitulation.”

U.S. companies were shedding more than 11,000 jobs a week over the last month, according to data from ADP Research.

The report found that companies shed roughly 11,250 jobs per week on average in the four weeks that ended Oct. 25, according to the company’s report.

ADP’s last monthly report, released last week, showed private-sector payrolls increased 42,000 in October after declining in the prior two months.

But the latest data suggests a weakening labor market amid a flurry of reporting analyzing job cuts across the country.

Last month saw the most job cuts within the month of October in more than two decades, according to a separate report from from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.