The U.S. Senate has passed a funding measure to clear the way for an end to the government shutdown, but Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse voted no.
He doesn't believe Republicans will keep their promise to work on lowering health care costs, but he hopes he's wrong.
Whitehouse says Republicans will pay a heavy political price if they don't work in a bipartisan way to lower skyrocketing premiums.
He says the shutdown has put President Trump's "mad cruelty" on display for the world to see.
He says the President and "his goons" were happy to inflict maximal pain on people and our economy, while throwing extravagant parties and wasting enormous sums to turn the White House into a "gaudy palace" and the American people will not forget.
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