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Six House Democrats on Wednesday crossed the aisle to vote in favor of a funding measure aimed at ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democrats provided a cushion for Speaker Johnson (R-La.) to get the measure across the finish line after two House Republicans \u2014 Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Greg Steube (R-Fla.) \u2014 opposed the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Democrats voted overwhelmingly to oppose the spending package, citing the absence of language to address expiring ObamaCare subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But six Democrats bucked their own leadership to help reopen the government after 43 days: Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), Adam Gray (D-Calif.), Don Davis (D-N.C.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost all of them are facing tough reelection contests in next year\u2019s midterms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democrats helped GOP leaders pass the measure relatively easily, 222 to 209.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golden\u2019s vote was widely expected. The Maine centrist has carved out a reputation as an independent-minded pragmatist \u2014 one who\u2019s been willing to vote against the grain of his party when it suits his district. And on previous spending votes, he\u2019s said he\u2019ll never support shutting down the government. Last week, he announced that he will not seek reelection next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gluesenkamp Perez was also not a surprise, as she had previously said she cannot \u201cin good conscience vote to shut down the government.\u201d She wrote on X after the vote that \u201cthe fight to stop runaway health insurance premiums won\u2019t be won by holding hungry Americans hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmericans can\u2019t afford for their Representatives to get so caught up in landing a partisan win that they abandon their obligation to come together to solve the urgent problems that our nation faces,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cook Political Report rates her seat a \u201ctoss up\u201d in next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These Democrats also pointed to the fact that the shutdown has made life harder for their constituents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shutdown, which stretched for over a month, has left thousands of federal workers furloughed and Americans without food assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuellar said the stability provided by passing the stopgap measure would be \u201cespecially important\u201d for border communities, where families depend on federal agencies for trade, travel and other matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuellar\u2019s district was among those altered by the new House map in Texas, drawn by GOP state lawmakers at Trump\u2019s request to pad the Republicans\u2019 slim majority in the lower chamber. Still, Cuellar says he likes his chances in a region he\u2019s represented for more than two decades. The handicappers at Cook say his race is a \u201ctoss up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, Davis said in a statement that an \u201cincreasing number of families\u201d have shared with him that they\u2019ve been \u201csuffering daily\u201d over the shutdown. Of the six Democrats, he faces the toughest reelection headwinds after North Carolina Republicans redrew the state map with the singular purpose of picking off his seat. The Cook handicappers put his district in the \u201clikely Republican\u201d column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suozzi, one of the leaders of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, said that he\u2019s been \u201cpreaching bipartisanship for years.\u201d He said he trusts Republicans to act on the ACA subsidies before premiums skyrocket at the start of next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am relying on the representations of some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, that they want to get something done to extend the Premium Tax Credits,\u201d Suozzi wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suozzi is in a safer seat than some of the other \u201cyes\u201d votes, though Cook still rates the contest in a competitive \u201clean Democrat\u201d category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gray said in an October statement that he does not support a shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bad for our nation, dangerous for our security, and devastating for our economy and Valley families. The only way forward is bipartisan compromise \u2014 not partisan threats or political games,\u201d he wrote at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the GOP side, Massie was an expected no vote. He has a long history of opposing government funding bills \u2014 even those crafted by his party \u2014 to protest levels of spending he considers unreasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steube wrote on X that he opposed the bill because it included a provision that would allow senators to earn a significant amount of money from litigation challenging the seizure of their phone records as part of former special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no reason the House should have been forced to eat this garbage to end the Schumer Shutdown,\u201d Steube said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said House Republicans would introduce legislation to repeal the provision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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