“Hungry children aren't pawns”

Economists are now saying that the cost of the government shutdown is about 15 billion dollars a week. The cost of extending the ACA tax credits for one year is  $35 billion dollars. Simple math tells us then if the GOP had negotiated with the Democrats early on, the tax credits could have been renewed for the next two and half years for the same amount of money that has been wasted since then, about 90 billion dollars.