ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The longest government shutdown in American history could reach its end as soon as Wednesday.

With the U.S. Senate passing a budget late Monday night, the continuing resolution, which funds the government through Jan. 30, 2026 is now in the hands of the U.S. House.

Members, many of whom scrambled back to D.C. for the first time in over a month, had been waiting on their Senate colleagues for nearly seven weeks.

At the center of the shutdown fight were Affordable Care Act tax credits. The subsidies tied to the program, colloquially referred to as “Obamacare,” cheapened health care by hundreds of dollars a month for over a million Georgians but were set to expire at the end of the year.

The Senate bill doesn’t include an extension of the subsidies but

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