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Senate votes to end government shutdown as Chuck Schumer faces calls to resign: Live updates - The funding bill has passed in the Senate and the House will have to approve it next
US senators have voted to approve a bill which could prove to end the longest ever government shutdown. Government services have been temporarily suspended during the 41-day shutdown, with roughly 1.4 million federal employees on upaid leave or working without pay.
As the spending bill passed, the logjam in Senate has ended, and the bill now proceeds to the House of Representatives for approval before being sent to President Trump for his signature.
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Live updates: Senate’s next shutdown move in limbo; Trump, Orbán float Budapest summit with Putin
As the government shutdown hits Day 38, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats offered a plan that would reopen the government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.)
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The North Dakota Republican spoke on the Senate floor about the shutdown’s impacts and called for reopening the government.
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