Republicans are misreading this as some kind of "victory" but that is short sided. Dems won BIG on the way this played out.
#1 They avoided Thune nuking the filibuster in the Senate.
#2 They gave voters a chance to speak last week and provide a sampling of the main issues that are going to drive next year's midterm election while the government was shut down and Trump was refusing to release food assistance funding to them.. Voters resoundingly screamed that Trump's sucky (and worsening) economy combined with rising health care costs are those main issues
#3 Dems forced Republicans to adopt and own any changes to healthcare that occur from this point forward. Either Republicans come up with their own plan to lower healthcare premiums within the next month and a half (which they can't and won't) or they extend the ACA's subsidies (which is what Dems demanded all along), or they let those subsidies expire, in which case premiums will skyrocket and doom Republican's midterm chances.
At any rate Republicans own the ACA now. What they do with it voters are waiting to see and they will remember it on election day next year.
So, by sometime next week the Epstein files will most likely will be all over the news complete with old photos of the pervy POTUS sitting around with half naked teenage girls on his lap against this backdrop of raging inflation, high unemployment, and an uncertain future of healthcare for tens of millions of Americans.
People are pissed...and they're not pissed at Democrats.
Republicans should enjoy their "victory" dance while it lasts, because it certainly isn't going to last long.