The poll also found that a plurality of respondents, 47 percent, believe that lawmakers should demand an extension of the expiring health care subsidies even if it means the shutdown continues. Some of those repeals would restore lost Medicaid funding that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would have gone to fund health care services for unauthorized immigrants. And the reality is Democrats have always known repealing major pieces of the GOP budget package is a nonstarter. ‘Unprecedented opportunity’Meanwhile, it’s a waiting game to see how much damage Trump and Vought can do in blue states under cover of the shutdown. If Republicans’ strategy is let the pressure build on Senate Democrats to peel off and buck their leadership, they might be waiting a while, however.