http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbyi...nment-shutdown
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WINNERS
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
McConnell is widely perceived to have got the better of his Democratic counterpart, Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
McConnell gave up little by simply pledging to have a vote on DACA. His broader argument — that DACA was not sufficiently important to force a shuttering of the government — also carried the day, at least for now.
McConnell is hardly out of the woods yet — the process of trying to get a DACA deal remains fraught with difficulty and Democrats will accuse him of bad faith if he comes up short.
But the wily McConnell has proven once again that it is hard to outflank him on tactics.
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LOSERS
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Schumer sought to put the best face on the deal to end the shutdown, hitting Trump for not being more engaged in the negotiations and suggesting there had been a solid advance toward protecting DACA beneficiaries.
But the fact remains that the minority leader got remarkably little in return for ending the shutdown.
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