Eight Democrat senators break rank, vote for deal to end U.S. government shutdown

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speaks with reporters outside his office on Nov. 10. Mr. Thune said he’s ‘grateful the end is in sight’ for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

The Democratic Party splintered into new in-fighting as a handful of its U.S. senators voted to reopen the federal government without a Republican guarantee to extend an expiring health care subsidy.

The deal struck in the U.S. Senate with support from eight members of the Democratic caucus presages an end to the longest shutdown in the country’s history, which has kept food benefits from low-income people and on Sunday alone contributed to the cancellation of nearly 3,000 flights .

It also promises bitter new legislative battles over the future of U.S. health