The deal, negotiated by a group of Democrats and GOP leaders, funds the government through Jan. 30. If it passes, it will still need to clear the House, which will likely take days.
WASHINGTON — Senators struck an agreement Sunday, projecting confidence that it will be sufficient to end the lengthy U.S. government shutdown, three sources with direct knowledge of the details told NBC News.
The agreement, reached by a group of Democrats who teamed up with Republicans, should have the necessary 60 votes to clear the Senate, these sources said. It would then need to pass the House and earn President Donald Trump’s signature to become law and reopen the government.
Even if it has enough support to clear those hurdles, the process is expected to take days.
The agreement contains a “minibus” — three full-year appropriations bills that will fund certain departments like Agriculture through the end of the fiscal year next fall — and a continuing resolution to fund the rest of the government at existing spending levels through Jan. 30.
It would also fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, once known as food stamps, through next September, a major flashpoint in the shutdown.
The sources said the deal also reverses Trump’s attempted layoffs of federal workers during the shutdown through RIFs, or “reduction in force” notifications.
But in a major concession from Democrats, it does not include an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Allowing the funds to lapse would raise insurance premiums for millions of Americans unless they are extended. Instead, the Democrats settled for a promise that the Senate will vote on a bill to extend the subsidies by the end of the second week of December, with the outcome uncertain, two of the sources said.
Even then, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said he won’t promise that the House will vote on extending the subsidies.
Democrats as so spineless. If they had even 50% of the fighting spirit that Republicans had (though they fight for things like taking away rights from minorities and taking money from the poor to give to their wealthy buddies), then we’d have universal healthcare, CONUS high-speed rail, complete renewable energy power, etc.
OLD Guard dnc is only electable because of republicans mismanagement of the previous admin, they dont really have any campaign promises of thier own, other than “promises”, they are codependent on gop to fuck, up so they get elected. thats why they dont often repeal what the gop legislate, because also benefits them, and they usually have the same donors.
There are still a lot of useful idiots in the democratic party as well as its constituency.
They, for some bizarre reason, feel like the success of businesses somehow translates to success for them. This means they are afraid to raise taxes on the people taking us for a ride.
A lot of them would rather have a child-raping fascist in office if he won’t raise taxes on our rulers.
Most of them are all owned by the same handful of companies. However, for the few that aren’t (of which there are some Republicans too) I prefer the side that wants freedom, educated and healthy citizens, clean environment, etc.