After 43 days, the House will soon vote on legislation to end the government shutdown, after it passed the Senate Monday night.

The legislation includes protections for federal employees against layoffs, back pay for those employees, and funding for SNAP. The legislation does not include an extension of subsidies for Obamacare, the nickname for the Affordable Care Act, with Republicans saying they will vote on that issue in mid-December.

Many Democrats are angry because the shutdown was centered around extending those healthcare funds. They feel betrayed by the eight members of the Senate who voted to reopen the government.

The eight senators, including Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, have received much backlash from their fellow lawmakers and their constituents for their decision.

During the shutdown, more than a million federal employees had to work without pay, SNAP benefits were threatened for families in need, airlines faced thousands of disruptions, and U.S. Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in was delayed.

“It wasn’t working,” Maine Sen. Angus King, who voted to end the shutdown, said in an interview with MSNBC. To him and the other Senate voters, ending the shutdown was better for the well-being of Americans.

However, many supporters of the shutdown claim that it was effective in pressuring Republicans on health care and other issues. They cited the mini “Blue Wave” from Election Day, in which Democrats won several key races, as proof. 

For voters, the Democrats folding before reaching their goal after all of those sacrifices is further evidence that the party has no backbone and that it is too fragmented.