United States: Bill to end government shutdown passes the Senate, heads to House

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00:00On this vote, the yeas are 60 and the nays are 40.

00:04Three-fifths of the senators, duly chosen and sworn, have voted in the affirmative.

00:09The motion is agreed to.

00:11A vote that might mark the beginning of the end of the U.S. shutdown.

00:16Nearly all Republicans in the Senate, and eight Democrats who broke from their party,

00:21backed a funding bill to reopen the government.

00:25I know that the strain of these weeks has been immense.

00:28You all have families, rent to meet, bills to pay, car and mortgage payments.

00:36And with that, after six excruciating weeks, I will stop talking and let all of you get some rest.

00:44The move has divided Democrats, with many feeling it's a capitulation to Republicans.

00:51The deal doesn't include extensions to Obama-era health care insurance premiums,

00:56which Democrats have been fighting to keep, only a promise of a vote on the issue in the Senate in December.

01:03For the U.S. president, it's a win.

01:06I think based on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything.

01:09And we have support from enough Democrats, and we're going to be opening up our country.

01:15It's too bad it was closed, but we'll be opening up our country very quickly.

01:18The shutdown has dragged on for more than 40 days, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees without pay.

01:25Many low-income Americans fearful of losing essential food aid.

01:30And flights disrupted after air traffic controllers were left with partial paychecks.

01:35The funding bill will now go before the Republican-controlled House of Representatives,

01:40where it could be passed as soon as Wednesday.

01:43The funding bill will now go before the Republican-controlled House of Representatives,

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