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Right Now: The U.S. government is close to reopening. Senate Democrats helped advance a stopgap bill after a G.O.P. pledge to continue immigration talks. Check out our live vote tracker to see how each lawmaker voted.
• The Senate voted to reopen the government after 81 senators broke the filibuster that shut it down.
So we had a one weekend shutdown. Guess it really didn’t matter after all.