Senate Inches Toward a Shutdown Solution: BGOV Tax

Shutdown Moves Closer to an End

A group of moderate Democrats joined Republicans late Sunday to take a procedural step toward advancing spending legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history.

Under the agreement, Congress would pass funding for the departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, and Congress itself for the rest of the fiscal year, while funding other agencies—like the Treasury and the IRS— through Jan. 30.

The deal falls short of the original key demand from Democrats—that enhanced tax credits offsetting premiums on health insurance policies purchased on Obamacare exchanges be extended past the end of the ...