The longest government shutdown in modern American history is about to end, after a handful of Democratic senators this weekend decided to provide Republicans enough votes to pass a short-term funding plan that would keep the government running until the end of January 2027.

While there’s not much for Democrats to write home about in this deal, it’s also not clear that they could have ever really won the showdown — or any of the concessions they were originally making. Moreover, the deal doesn’t put the issue to bed so much as it kicks the can down the road for a few months — through January — before another vote to fund the government will be needed. That leaves a question: Will the country find itself facing another shutdown in just a few months’ time?

For answers, I turned to Matt Gro

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