Democrats entered the shutdown seeking to renew tax credits to stave off insurance premium price hikes and to show voters they have the stomach for hardball negotiations in President Donald Trump’s Washington.

As the record-long shutdown neared its end more than a month later, they failed to achieve either.

A group of eight Democrats on Sunday broke with the rest of their party—including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — to vote with Republicans to advance a bill to reopen the government on the impasse’s 40th day.

That plan doesn’t include the extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats staked their shutdown fight on. They did get a pledge for a separate vote on the healthcare tax credits in the coming weeks, but the prospects of Democrats landing a win from that

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