Senate on sunday night voted to advance a proposal that, if passed by congress, would fund the federal government through january, marking an important step toward ending the nation's. Senate takes the first step toward ending the government shutdown, advancing a funding bill after weeks of gridlock. For 40 days, senator chuck schumer kept his caucus unified But an end approached without democrats achieving an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies. A critical bloc of eight senate democratic centrists on sunday helped advance a funding deal to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending enhanced affordable care act. As part of democrats’ agreement to end the shutdown, senate majority leader john thune is promising senate democrats a vote in december to extend affordable care act subsidies that are due to.
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