{"id":344976,"date":"2018-01-22T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-senate-votes-to-end-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:08:37","slug":"presstv-us-senate-votes-to-end-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-senate-votes-to-end-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US Senate votes to end government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Senate has overwhelmingly voted to reopen the government, ending a days-long standoff that forced hundreds of thousands of federal government workers to stay at home without pay. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 81-18 on Monday on a stopgap spending measure to fund the government through February 8.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats agreed with Republicans to end the government shutdown, after they received a promise from after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to move on immigration bills including support for undocumented immigrants brought to America as children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After several discussions, offers and counteroffers, the Republican leader and I have come to an arrangement. We will vote today to reopen the government to continue negotiating a global agreement,&#8221; Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York,\u00a0said ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The short-term funding bill still needs to pass on a final up-or-down vote, but that is a formality now. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/22\/549839\/US-Senate-votes-to-end-government-shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Senate has overwhelmingly voted to reopen the government, ending a days-long standoff that forced hundreds of thousands of federal government workers to stay at home without pay. \u00a0 The Senate voted 81-18 on Monday on a stopgap spending measure to fund the government through February 8. Senate Democrats agreed with Republicans to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}