Senate Passes Deal to Reopen Government

Democrats Are So Angry, One Senator Faces Blowback From Her Daughter​


Stefany Shaheen is running for a House seat in New Hampshire on a health care platform and with a boost from her family name and the legacy of her mother, Jeanne Shaheen, the state’s former governor and now its senior senator.

So when the elder Ms. Shaheen negotiated to move toward ending the government shutdown without a Republican agreement to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats have demanded, the younger Ms. Shaheen had a problem.

“We need to both end this shutdown and extend the ACA tax credits,” Stefany Shaheen said in a statement on social media. “Otherwise, no deal.”

 
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