The Senate voted on Monday evening to end the record-long government shutdown despite intense backlash to Democratic senators who caved to reach the deal.

The passage of the short-term spending bill to fund the government through January is the latest in several steps toward reopening the government as the shutdown hit Day 41.

In the end, eight Democratic senators joined with Republicans for the 60 to 40 vote on the legislation after paving the way for the final vote late Sunday.

In return for ending the standoff, Democrats were promised a vote on health care in the Senate. However their push for Congress to extend the expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies already appears to be dead on arrival in the House before the bill even goes before the Senate.

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