I'm not overly pissed off over this.
What does irritate me is the timing. The Trump administration was in the middle of deciding not to feed poor American families. That wasn't some inevitable outcome of the shutdown, it was a choice he was fighting at the highest level for. If the Democrats can't message that, then I just don't fucking know what they can win on. Did anyone see any Republican Senator asked about that: "The government currently has the funds and the legal obligation to feed American families below the poverty level: do you agree with the President's decision to not feed them as a way of pressuring the Democrats?" Give it another week for that play out.
But, while this is a fight that the Democrats needed to fight, it was obvious the Republicans were not going to give up the ACA firebombing. So what did the Dems get? To me, the big thing was a short timetable until the next fight. Come January 30th, we come to another decision point. But during that fight, SNAP will be fully funded. And while I think Democrats win on Trump defunding SNAP, I also get that Democrats don't want poor kids going hungry. The biggest problem with the Democrats here is that they would rather govern than battle. They need to get ready to battle, because it's either fight or capitulate.