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The longest government shutdown in U.S. history moved closer to an end Monday after a small group of mostly Senate Democrats struck a deal with Republicans, and a 60-40 vote broke a grueling stalemate that has lasted more than six weeks.
The shutdown could continue a few more days as members of the House, which has been on recess since mid-September, return to Washington to vote on the legislation.
The legislative package leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions of Americans.
The shutdown has caused thousands of flight cancellations and delays as air traffic controllers — unpaid for nearly a month — have stopped showing up, citing the added stress and need to take second jobs.
President Donald Trump’s administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to keep frozen full payments in the SNAP federal food aid program while the government is shut down, even as some U.S. families struggle to put food on the table without that federal assistance.
Other news we’re following:
- What’s in the legislative package to end the shutdown: What’s in and out of the bipartisan deal drew sharp criticism and leaves few senators fully satisfied. The legislation provides funding to reopen the government, including for SNAP food aid and other programs, while also ensuring backpay for furloughed federal workers the Trump administration had left in doubt. But notably lacking is any clear resolution to expiring health care subsidies that Democrats have been fighting for as millions of Americans stare down rising insurance premiums. That debate was pushed off for a vote next month, weeks before the subsidies are set to expire.
- Supreme Court rejects appeal to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling: The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. The court also agreed Monday to decide before the 2026 elections whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, a target of Trump.
- Trump proclaims pardons for Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election: The “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon applies only to federal crimes, and none of the dozens of Trump allies named in the proclamation were ever charged federally over the bid to subvert the election won by Democrat Joe Biden. It doesn’t impact state charges, though state prosecutions stemming from the 2020 election have hit a dead end or are just limping along.
