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The Senate was on track Sunday night to pass a deal that could end the federal government shutdown, which began on Oct. 1.
A person familiar with the deal told CNBC that enough Democratic senators had agreed to vote for the deal to clear a 60-vote minimum threshold. It would fund the U.S. government through the end of January.
The person familiar with the deal said that there are at least eight members of the Democratic caucus who would vote in favor of it. That would give the measure 61 votes, one more than the minimum required to pass.
If passed, the deal would have to be approved by the House of Representatives and signed into law before the shutdown would end.
The Senate has been stalemated for weeks over the Republican majority’s insistence on passing a House bill that would provide short-term funding for government operations, without addressing a key looming question over the fate of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.
And most Democrats have refused to vote for a stopgap funding bill that does not extend the life of those ACA subsidies, which are due to expire at the end of the year.
The deal calls for a vote on a bill related to the ACA credits by the second week of December. Democrats would get to pick which bill is voted on at a time when there is strong public opinion in favor of extending the subsidies, which more than 20 million Americans use to reduce the cost of health insurance coverage purchased on Obamacare marketplaces.
The deal also calls for a reversal of all permanent layoffs of government employees during the shutdown and protection of such so-called reductions-in-force happening until the end of fiscal year 2026.
The deal guarantees that all federal workers will be paid their normal salaries during the shutdown, when many of them were not allowed to work.
The package also includes provisions for having a bipartisan budget process and preventing the White House from using continuing resolutions to fund the government.
It would also fund, through September, the SNAP program which helps feed 42 million Americans through food stamps.
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