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Chris Stein in Washington

‘A righteous fight’: Democrats hold fast on healthcare but also use shutdown to pummel Trump

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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer speaks alongside House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries in Washington DC on 29 September 2025. Photograph: Mattie Neretin/Pool/CNP/Shutterstock

Finally, after nine months of Donald Trump running rampant over much in the government they hold dear, Democrats in Congress have found the ground on which to fight.

Pressed to vote for a Republican plan to keep the government open through mid-November, Democrats balked, and instead laid out a series of demands that amounted to the undoing of much of what the GOP has accomplished over the past year.

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