{"id":254134,"date":"2025-11-10T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254134\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:28:08","slug":"senators-reach-deal-that-could-end-longest-government-shutdown-in-us-history-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254134\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators reach deal that could end longest government shutdown in US history &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thune promises Democrats he will call healthcare vote in Decemberpublished at 01:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>01:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fdf8e28c-efed-441c-8894-6fc7226279bc.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Ana Faguy<br \/>Reporting from Washington DC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The major sticking point for Democrats in this government shutdown battle was securing an extension on healthcare benefits for millions of Americans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the deal that was negotiated, Senate Majority Leader John Thune promised Democrats he would hold a vote on extending those healthcare benefits by the second week of December. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thune spoke on the floor just before the Senate began voting to advance the first part of the deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI\u2019m thankful to be able to say we have senators, both Democrats and Republicans, who are eager to get to work to address that crisis in a bipartisan way,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe also have a president who is willing to sit down and get to work on this issue. So I\u2019m looking forward to see what solutions might be brought forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thune did not say exactly what that bill would contain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thune promises Democrats he will call healthcare vote in Decemberpublished at 01:50 GMT 01:50 GMT Ana FaguyReporting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-254134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}