Senate Advances Plan to End US Government Shutdown

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00:00The longest U.S. government shutdown moving closer to an end.

00:03Eight Senate Democrats breaking with their party to advance a funding measure

00:06with Republicans. Bloomberg's Mika Sona joins us now for more.

00:10Mika, is Minority Leader Schumer losing control of his party?

00:15Well, there's been a lot of criticism of how Leader Chuck Schumer has handled this whole

00:20debacle. I think that he's facing a lot of pressure and critiques from not just his Senate

00:27colleagues, privately and publicly, but also the House, House progressives and the majority

00:32of House members, Leader Hakeem Jeffries, even moderate members like Andy Craig of Minnesota,

00:38for example, are furious at this deal, saying that they're not going to vote for this when

00:42it comes to the House. Granted, it's likely to pass with just Republicans anyway. But yes,

00:49definitely Schumer has taken a lot of heat from not being able to keep his caucus together.

00:54Mika, what are the next steps? Can you describe the process over the next few days to

00:57really end this thing?

00:59Yeah, absolutely. So I think, you know, once the Senate gets through here, we're going to,

01:03all eyes are going to be on the House, who has been out of session for the past few weeks.

01:08You know, Speaker Mike Johnson has to give 36 hours notice to members, and that means a lot of

01:13members will become flying in back to D.C. and or even taking long drives due to delays. But

01:19they're going to have to pass this. And then we're going to have to see what happens in the next

01:22couple of months to when some of the some of the funding levels expire on January 30th. But that's

01:28a fight for another day.