Senate Reaches Agreement to End Shutdown Without DACA Fix

Published January 22, 2018 6:19pm ET



Lawmakers in the Senate reached an agreement to end the government shutdown Monday afternoon, but congressional Democrats who voted down a spending bill that would have kept the government open on Friday because it did not include a replacement for the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program appear to be right back where they started.

“The Trump shutdown will soon end,” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer before a vote on a three-week continuing resolution, “but the work must go on. And it will.”

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