The Senate on Monday night began conducting a series of votes on a deal to end the government shutdown .

The Senate's Republican leadership hopes to complete the votes by the end of the night.

If approved, the deal will head the House of Representatives. If it passes in both chambers of Congress, it will head to President Donald Trump to be signed into law. Trump said earlier Monday that he approves the deal as it currently stands.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., added uncertainty to the fate of the deal when he refused to commit to a key guarantee in the deal, of assuring Democrats that Congress will hold a separate vote in December on potentially extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.

"I'm not committing to it or not committing to it," Johnson said on CNN.

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