Key Highlights
- Republicans finally conjured up the votes to pass a retooled spending package to end the brief shutdown.
- Certainly better than the record 43-day shutdown in the fall.
- But it wasn’t necessarily easy.
- SHUTDOWN AVERTED FOR NOW, BUT SENATE WARNS DHS FIGHT COULD TRIGGER ANOTHER IN DAYS "We’ll have the votes," Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., assured in the leadup to a vote to end a partial government shutdown.
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