Democrat-aligned senator who voted to reopen the government admits the party's shutdown strategy 'didn't work

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, admitted to MSNBC on Monday that the Democratic Party’s federal government shutdown strategy has failed.

During an interview with MSNBC’s "Morning Joe," King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, stated that the Democratic Party’s two-fold strategy of standing up to President Donald Trump and getting Republican lawmakers to negotiate with them on Obamacare subsidies "didn’t work."

"It’s now the longest shutdown in American history, and there was no...