If Democrats did not get CHIP funding in this CR, they got rolled. You can't get nothing, and right now, they got nothing. Maybe they did get CHIP funding, and that has been obscured in the reporting, but I doubt it.
They caved.
Here's what happens next: The Senate takes up some form of DACA fix. Maybe they pass something, maybe not. Whatever is able to pass the Senate dies in the House.
Democrats will have to decide all over again whether to shutdown the government in early February - that much closer to the end of DACA.
Once again, the essential cowardice and lack of conviction on the part of Congressional Democrats is sickening.
One reason why was the naked embrace of many Republican talking points by mainstream media outlets, but that is neither here nor there.
The Democrats took a stand and the very second it became a little hot, they folded like a cheap lawn chair.
UPDATE: Errrrr, never mind. They got CHIP funding. The comparison of 8,000,000 CHIP children being held hostage for 800,000 DREAMers was a bad optic.
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