WASHINGTON – After eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus broke ranks and voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown, Washington state Democrats on Monday criticized the deal for not addressing their party’s demand to extend insurance subsidies whose expiration would raise health care costs for millions of Americans.

The breakaway Democratic senators sided with Republicans in a vote Monday night to fund some government programs and agencies through September 2026 and all others through January. In exchange for their help to achieve the 60 votes needed to break the impasse and end the 41-day stalemate, the Trump administration committed to rehire federal workers it fired during the shutdown and Senate GOP leaders agreed to allow a vote on extending the subsidies.

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