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The government shutdown has reached Day 38, the longest in history. Will the Senate vote today to reopen the government? See time, live update, more.
• Senate moves forward: The Senate has voted 60-40 on a key step toward reopening the government. The vote came after a critical group of eight Senate Democratic centrists reached a deal with Senate GOP leaders and the White House to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care subsidies .
The Senate now has enough Democratic votes to reopen the government after a 40-day shutdown, after a rare Saturday session yielded little progress despite mounting pressures. A group of centrist
A final version of a bill to end the US government shutdown has just passed the Senate with a 60-40 vote. Lawmakers are now one step closer to ending the longest shutdown in the country's history. The bill goes to the US House of Representatives next, where a vote is expected on Wednesday.
More than 7,900 flights have been canceled across the United States since the FAA began restricting flight capacity at 40 major airports on Friday due to the ongoing government shutdown. FlightAware data shows 1,025 cancellations on Friday and 1,566 on Saturday for flights “within, into, or out of the United States.”
The Senate on Monday passed the bill to end the government shutdown, sending it to the House. Final passage came after a series of procedural votes. Those, in turn, followed a weekend breakthrough