Senate moving toward votes to end federal government shutdown
The U.S. Senate successfully moved Sunday night toward ending the federal government shutdown, in a breakthrough deal between Republicans and some moderate Democrats.
The chamber cleared a key procedural hurdle, with at least eight Democrats joining Republicans to advance the plan to reopen the government toward a final vote likely to be held later this week.
Despite some fellow Democrats joining Republicans in the deal, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) cast the shutdown standoff that enters its 41st day on Monday as having made “the contrasts between the two parties clear."
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