After weeks of watching Americans stretch paychecks, juggle frozen SNAP benefits, and hoping airline workers didn’t walk out mid-shift, a handful of Democrats finally caved and agreed to end the shutdown Sunday night by breaking the filibuster. It appears that olitical survival and not being blamed for mass chaos is a powerful motivator.

But not for Michigan Democratic Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin. They voted against ending the shutdown 15 times – including on Sunday – and then again on Monday when the Senate finally passed the Continuing Resolution (CR) to re-open the government. The legislation now goes to the House and then to the president for his signature.

Their opposition to reopening the government was done under the banner of “protecting” health care. Translation: keep Obamacare propped up at pandemic-level spending, funnel billions into insurance companies, and hope nobody notices the emergency is long over. Oh, and don’t forget the bonus: taxpayer-funded care for illegal immigrants in emergency rooms and in states eager to hand it out like parade candy.

If this shutdown was truly about health care, surely the Democrats’ 68-page list of demands would’ve been packed with detailed reforms, right? Wrong. Only about one and a half pages touched health care. The rest was a $1.5 trillion wish list of ideological stocking stuffers and pet projects ranging from climate virtue signaling to corporate treats.

Meanwhile, Michigan families have been budgeting down to the nickel while their senators enjoyed uninterrupted paychecks and cafeteria lunches on the taxpayers’ dime.

Worth noting: Back in 2019, Senator Peters warned that shutdowns “hurt families” and that Americans are “sick and tired” of Congress failing to do its job.

Correct then. Conveniently forgotten now.

While airports stalled and grocery budgets snapped, Michigan’s senators chose fantasy-land Obamacare talking points over the people actually footing the bill.