American media reported that on Sunday (11/09/2025), members of the United States Senate reached a bipartisan agreement to resume federal funding and end a government shutdown that extended for a record 40 days and suspended many government services.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers have reached a tentative agreement to fund the federal government through January, CNN and Fox News reported, following disagreements over support for health care and food benefits and President Donald Trump’s layoffs of federal employees.
“It looks like we’re on the cusp of ending the shutdown,” Trump told reporters upon his arrival at the White House after a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
It will go to the House of Representatives
The measure is scheduled to be voted on in the Senate on Sunday evening.
Once it passes through the Senate, it must be approved by the House, where the Republican majority is very small, and then passed by Trump.
According to lawmakers, the bill should refund the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps more than 42 million low-income Americans pay for food.
Also, undo Trump’s layoffs of thousands of federal workers over the past month and secure a vote to extend health care subsidies set to expire at the end of this year.
Opposition to the agreement
In this regard, the leader of the Democratic minority in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, opposed the project that was agreed upon in the Senate, with the support of Democrats, to break the deadlock on the federal government, after 40 days of paralysis.
The agreement will allow Congress to approve budgeted funds for the Departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and other agencies through January 30, while allowing the salaries of about 650,000 officials whose salaries were suspended and the reinstatement of some furloughed officials.
He also said that they asked President Trump to meet with the Democratic side to reach an agreement to provide low-cost health insurance to citizens “but instead, what he did was take them hostage by cutting the food assistance program for families, veterans, seniors and children, canceling flights, turning down the heat while building a ballroom and a golden bathroom, and that’s why I have to vote no,” the senator said shortly before the vote.
As part of today’s negotiations, the Republican side assured Democrats that they will vote in December to extend Obamacare benefits, as they have demanded.
Among those who spoke out against the agreement was California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, who called the agreement “pathetic.”
He said on his account on X: “This is not an agreement, this is surrender, and we will not kneel.”
mg (AFP, EFI)
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