The Senate handed a authorities funding package deal Monday evening that paves the way in which for ending the longest shutdown in historical past.
The 60-40 vote got here roughly 24 hours after a bipartisan group of rank-and-file senators, in tandem with Majority Chief John Thune, reached an settlement that formally broke a weeks-long partisan stalemate.
The bipartisan invoice nonetheless must move the Home and get signed by President Donald Trump earlier than the federal government can reopen. Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested his members the Home may vote on the package deal as quickly as Wednesday.
However Senate passage places the federal funding lapse on monitor to be over by the top of the week. Trump is anticipated to lean on any potential Home GOP holdouts, and a cadre of reasonable Home Democrats may help the plan in a break with get together leaders, who’re nonetheless smarting over the failure to safe an extension of expiring Obamacare tax credit.
Jennifer Scholtes and Katherine Tully-McManus contributed to this report.