MANCHESTER, N.H. —

A bill to reopen the federal government is expected to pass Wednesday, but the politics will continue to play out for weeks.

The deal reached by a small group of Democratic senators, including New Hampshire U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, includes a promise to vote on Affordable Care Act tax credits by mid-December.

A lot of Democrats are upset with Shaheen and Hassan over cutting a deal when Democrats appeared to have momentum from the recent elections, along with polling that showed that Republicans were taking more blame for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

It remains to be seen whether Democrats can convince the president and Republicans on Capitol Hill to strike another deal on the ACA credits. If they do, the drama of recent days wi

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