Democrats Caved on the Shutdown. These Voters Are Furious.

On Sunday, eight Senate Democrats made the shock announcement that they were embracing a deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The legislative package addresses the SNAP-funding crisis and secures backpay for furloughed workers, but it abandons the issue that Democrats have said was the reason for holding the line on shuttering the government for seven weeks to begin with: health-care costs.

At the end of this year, Republicans are expected to allow Obamacare premium subsidies to expire . Twenty million Americans are set to face astronomical increases in their health-care costs next year as a result with their insurance premiums doubling, tripling, and sometimes even quadrupling. That’s been a sticking point for congressional Democrats who vowed not to reo