It still won't get the planes running on time for the holidays. The Republicans have no real choices between cuck to the Democrats, or end the fillibuster. There's no negotiation possible.
Ending the filibuster would be good for the American people, because we wouldn't have years on end of nothing getting done in Congress due to the minority party preventing votes on anything. Of course, the Republicans don't want to do this, because they want to reserve this power for the next time they're in the minority.
In 2012, the Democrats promised to end the filibuster. During Obama's first term, the Republicans effectively kept Barry's agenda from being enacted, earning themselves the epithet, "The Party of 'No'". Naturally, the Democrats welshed on this promise, so they could go on to fuck up Trump's 2 terms by becoming "The Party of 'No'" themselves.
Congresspeople don't give two shits about the American people. None of the ever-shifting list of issues that have been floated as reasons, from illegal alien healthcare, extension of the ACA subsidy, and even the ludicrous return of funding to NPR, are really what the shutdown is all about. It's a senatorial power play, nothing more, and these absolute cunts are holding the entire nation hostage with their reindeer games.
Senators are traitors.