US EditionSenate passes first stage of deal that could end government shutdown
- The Senate on Sunday advanced legislation to reopen and fund the government, including rehiring federal employees and funding SNAP through fiscal year 2026; the bill will return to the House before heading to President Donald Trump.
- With air travel and food aid disrupted, pressure grew to reopen the government as U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,000 flights and the Capital Area Food Bank provided 8 million more meals amid the 40-day government shutdown.
- Jeanne Shaheen, U.S. Sen. , Maggie Hassan, U.S. Sen. , and Angus King, Independent U.S. Sen. led negotiations while Nevada's two senators joined most GOP senators to advance the bill, with Republicans agreeing to a vote on ACA subsidies next month.
- The package advances three full-year appropriations bills forming a minibus funding military construction and veterans affairs, the legislative branch, and the Department of Agriculture, maintaining a ban on pay raises for lawmakers while adding $203.5 million security funding.
- Despite the vote, the agreement omits an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, and if subsidies lapse, premiums on average could more than double next year, Democratic critics say.
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The US Senate late last night approved a funding bill that would end the government shutdown, bringing Congress one step closer to ending the 41-day standoff.
Adopted with 60 votes in favour and 40 against, the bill has been able to pass thanks to the support of a handful of democratic senators and plans to extend the current budget until the end of January.
A more than 40-day-long shutdown of the US government is nearing an end after a vote in the Senate.
Trump and the GOP Won the Shutdown. Let’s Make Sure Trophies Are Taken. – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Sunday night, the inevitable finally happened and the Senate Democrats finally cracked. After more than 40 days of pointless filibustering, which furthered a government shutdown from which most Americans saw no measureable effects and weren’t particularly transfixed by, seven of them — plus a Democrat-leaning independent — joined the Republicans (except for the increasingly tiresome Rand Paul) in producing 60 votes for an amended continuing reso…
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* Subscribers know more. ICYMI: Federal shutdown nears end as Durbin joins Senate deal. Bloomberg… Under the agreement, Congress would pass full-year funding for the departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Congress itself, while funding other agencies through Jan. 30. The bill would provide pay for furloughed government workers, resume withheld federal payments to states [...]
An end to the US budget dispute is approaching. Mike Johnson, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives, hopes to reach an agreement there on Wednesday. The Senate has already agreed.
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