What to know on Day 41 of the government shutdown:

Eight Democrats joined Senate Republicans late Sunday night in voting to advance a House-passed short-term funding measure, the first step in weeks toward ending the government shutdown .

Fourteen previous Senate votes fell short of the 60 votes needed to move the legislation forward. Though more hurdles remain, the vote paves the way for an end to the shutdown as early as this week.

The breakthrough came as GOP leaders pursued a different strategy, one which would allow the resolution to be amended to include three longer-term appropriations bills, as well as an extension of the short-term stopgap measure passed by the House in September. The original House bill would have extended government funding until Nov. 21. The extension wo

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