Seven Democrats and an independent senator who caucuses with them split with their party to vote for a deal that would pave the way to ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

The Sunday vote has divided the Democratic Party. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) opposed the bipartisan agreement, as did many rank-and-file Democrats.

The compromise would combine three full-year funding measures into one package with a stopgap funding bill that would reopen the government through Jan. 30, but it would not extend, as Democrats have demanded, the Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. Instead, Republicans agreed to a vote on the extension in December. Any final deal would requi

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