The longest shutdown in U.S. history is starting to wind down after a bloc of Senate Democrats joined Republicans on a deal to reopen the federal government , but Connecticut’s senators opposed the agreement because it made no guarantee to extend the policy at the heart of the shutdown fight: expiring health care subsidies .

The Senate’s key procedural vote late Sunday capped off a weekend scramble to put a deal in motion and move to the beginning stages of ending the 41-day shutdown. More than a dozen previous votes failed over the past month, but enough Democrats changed their vote after a series of negotiations to break the impasse.

Eight Democrats joined all Republicans in a 60-40 vote Sunday night to help clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance bills in the Senate.

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