The Democrats who decided to vote for the deal are the worst kind of craven cowards, fairly explicitly going for it to protect the fillibuster.

but I think this capitulation is a much smaller than its made out to be. Paying government employees and SNAP payments over the hollidays is good, and in my opinion more important than holding out for a deal that would never happen anyway. The most important thing to me here is that it's a continuing resolution that doesnt go past January. There WILL be another shutdown, and that one might go even longer and will be AFTER the ACA funding has a separate vote. So we might actually have the shutdown messaging about the more important reasons why there shouldnt be funding, what with the fascism, and the corruption, and the Epstein, and the contempt for both the constitution and the very idea of independently verifiable reality.