It's Tuesday, November 11th.
I'm Jane Costin, and this is What A Day,
the show that lives in the country where millions of people might soon lose access to health care.
But according to a whistleblower complaint,
convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell received a puppy to play with at her minimum security prison camp in Texas.
Poor puppy.
On today's show,
the Supreme Court rejects a long shot ask to consider overturning its landmark 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage.
And President Donald Trump hands out early Thanksgiving pardons to Rudy Giuliani,
Mark Meadows, and a whole flock of 2020 election conspirators.
But let's start with health care, the government shutdown,
and a lot of Democrat on Democrat fighting.
On Sunday night,
eight Senate Democrats agreed to vote with Republicans on a plan to end the longest government shutdown in American history.
with no guarantee of extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies the entire shutdown was about in the first place.
But according to New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan, this is a win.
Or maybe the first step on the road to a win?
So my Democratic colleagues and I have been ready to work on this issue on extending these tax cuts for months.
With the government reopening shortly,
Senate Republicans now finally have to come to the table or make no mistake.