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Senate on the cusp of ending shutdown

The Senate is on the verge of ending the longest government shutdown in history, but without giving Democrats an extension of ObamaCare’s premium subsidies.

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A handful of moderate Senate Democrats, as well as independent Angus King of Maine, negotiated a funding deal with their GOP colleagues that would ensure back pay to the furloughed federal workers and give the thousands of workers fired during the shutdown their jobs back, including 950 employees in the Department of Health and Human Services.

But it did not include the main priority Democrats had demanded since the start of the shutdown: an extension of the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies. Instead, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) promised a vot

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