“The Senate will vote Thursday on two separate bills that would bring an immediate end to the partial government shutdown: one backed by President Trump that includes $5.7 billion for his border wall and another that would simply extend funding for shuttered agencies through Feb. 8,” the New York Times reports.
“The plan, a compromise between Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, offers the first hint of a path out of the partial shutdown, which is now in its fifth week and has left 800,000 federal workers without pay.”
The Hill: “There is no guarantee that either bill can get the votes to pass and break the months-long stalemate that has closed roughly a quarter of the government. But the deal between McConnell and Schumer is the first glimmer of progress after weeks of entrenched back-and-forth.”
