Breaking News – Senate reaches deal to avert government shutdown – Source: The Hill

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Senate reaches deal to avert government shutdown
By Peter Schroeder

Senate leaders struck a late deal Monday night intended to avert a government shutdown.

Under a last-minute arrangement reached by the two parties, the Senate agreed to pass a measure that would fund the government for six weeks, through Nov. 18.

The House is expected to approve that stopgap measure by unanimous consent later this week in a pro forma session. This would give the lower that chamber enough time to return from Congress’s week-long recess to consider the six-week measure.

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The Shutdown Matchup: A Preview Of Bouts To Come – Source: NPR

As the partisan brawlers on Capitol Hill narrowly avoided the first federal government shutdown in 15 years, others were looking ahead to much larger spending battles Congress faces.

"This is just the undercard," says fiscal policy expert J.D. Foster, of the conservative Heritage Foundation.

After all, the partisan struggle playing out over funding for the six months remaining in the current fiscal year involves just policy and billions of dollars, not policy and trillions. (Read more)