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Senate Democrats emerged from a two-and-a-half-hour caucus meeting Sunday night announcing there will be enough votes in the Senate to reopen the federal government after a grueling 40-day shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of centrist Democrats led by Sens. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), negotiated the deal to reopen government with Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and the Senate GOP leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collins led the negotiations on a minibus appropriations package to fund military construction, veterans affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the legislative branch as well as a continuing resolution to fund the government until Jan. 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaheen, a member of the Appropriations Committee, worked with Collins on the funding bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King and Hassan played a key role in getting Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to promise a vote this year on extending enhanced health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are due to expire at the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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King told reporters after the Democratic caucus meeting that there will be the votes to pass the deal through the Senate and that the Democrats who are backing the legislation feel the shutdown has gone on long enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked if he\u2019s confident there would be enough votes to pass the bill, King told reporters: \u201cThat\u2019s certainly what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Senate will go back into session at 8 p.m. Sunday and is expected to vote Sunday evening to end the shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King said \u201cthe length of the shutdown\u201d persuaded Democrats to support the deal, many elements of which had been on the negotiating table for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said it became increasingly clear that Republicans were not going to agree to a deal to reopen the government and extend enhanced health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act that are due to expire in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King says there\u2019s still a \u201cchance\u201d the subsidies will be renewed because Thune has promised as part of the deal to give Democrats a vote on the ACA subsidies in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPart of the deal is a vote on the ACA subsidies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that he and other members of the Democratic caucus want to end the shutdown in the next few days because \u201ca lot of people are being hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill still needs to pass the House, which hasn\u2019t voted since Sept. 19. It then needs to go President Trump\u2019s desk for a signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several Democrats emerged from the meeting, however, pledging to oppose the deal, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA wink and a nod to deal with this health care crisis later \u2013 with no actual guarantees \u2013 is just not enough for me or the Wisconsin families I work for,\u201d Baldwin said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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