{"id":277694,"date":"2025-11-12T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:56:12","slug":"what-house-democrats-in-districts-trump-won-are-saying-about-the-shutdown-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277694\/","title":{"rendered":"What House Democrats in districts Trump won are saying about the shutdown deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Democrats\u2019 intraparty feud<\/a> is making its way to the House, where members of the caucus are hoping to soundly reject the deal moderate Senate Democrats<\/a> reached with Republicans to reopen the government during a vote later this week.\n <\/p>\n

\n Navigating the party\u2019s shutdown strategy will be particularly delicate for the 13 Democrats in seats that went for President Donald Trump last year. At a time when the party base has lambasted Senate Democrats, who have been accused of \u201ccaving\u201d to end the weekslong shutdown<\/a>, most of those to speak out have rejected the Senate deal.\n <\/p>\n

\n The deal to end the shutdown<\/a> would fund the government through the end of January and offer a reprieve from layoffs for federal workers. Under the agreement, the Senate plans to vote on legislation to extend the Affordable Care Act\u2019s enhanced premium tax credits, Democrats\u2019 main funding priority. The deal does not, however, guarantee a vote will happen in the House, which has become the main sticking point for Democrats.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIf we knew we were going to get a vote in the House, I\u2019d probably support this deal,\u201d New York Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi, whose district went for Trump by 5 points last year, said during a radio interview<\/a> with Brian Lehrer on Monday.\n <\/p>\n

\n House Democratic leadership is encouraging members to vote against the Senate deal, CNN has reported<\/a>, and one centrist coalition within the party also opposes the agreement. The moderate New Democrat Coalition on Tuesday came out against the deal, a position that required approval from two-thirds of the group\u2019s 116 members. Ten of the 13 Democrats in Trump districts are members of the group.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here\u2019s what the 13 crossover district Democrats \u2014 based on lines drawn before this year\u2019s redistricting battles<\/a> \u2014 have said about the deal to end the government shutdown:\n <\/p>\n

\n Harder said he is a \u201chell no\u201d on the deal in an X video<\/a> his office posted Monday.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t a deal at all,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a surrender that is doing absolutely nothing to lower health care costs and premiums for millions of Californians.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Harder blasted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats who voted for the deal, calling it an \u201cunacceptable\u201d capitulation to the Trump administration, and said he would push to stop it in the House. Schumer publicly opposed the deal and voted against it.\n <\/p>\n

\n Suozzi told WNYC on Monday he wasn\u2019t ready to endorse the Senate deal because it doesn\u2019t guarantee a vote in the House to address the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits. Like many Democrats opposed to the funding bill, Suozzi said he was worried the Senate might pass a measure to address the expiring tax credits, only for the House not to take it up.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat would be a real kick in the head,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Pou called the agreement a \u201cbad deal\u201d in a statement on X<\/a> and said she would oppose any measure that doesn\u2019t extend the premium tax credits.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI will be voting no to any so-called government funding package that will not stop Republican price hikes on health care premiums,\u201d Pou said.\n <\/p>\n

\n McDonald Rivet said she\u2019s opposed to the deal.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe urgently need a bipartisan budget with real solutions to fix these costs and open the government,\u201d she said in a statement on X<\/a>. \u201cI remain ready to work on it, but caving without health care solutions would fail countless working families who are struggling to get by.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The Ohio lawmaker told Spectrum News<\/a> that she will not vote for the measure.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhat\u2019s at stake are the health insurance bills and the cost of health insurance for millions and millions of Americans and their families, and we cannot take their benefits away,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina wrote on X<\/a> that he is reviewing the deal and is focused on \u201cending the government shutdown responsibly and addressing the high cost of living families are facing.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a New Mexico Democrat, expressed concerns about the funding bill to a local ABC affiliate<\/a>, saying the deal \u201cdoesn\u2019t get anywhere close\u201d to resolving premium increases.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t help to fix the health care crisis that we are facing, not just in New Mexico but across the country,\u201d Vasquez said.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to spokespeople for Reps. Adam Gray of California, Susie Lee of Nevada, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, and Jared Golden of Maine for comment.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Democrats\u2019 intraparty feud is making its way to the House, where members of the caucus are hoping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-277694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}