Senate Democrats Get Little as Shutdown Fight Ends With a Punt
- Minority settles for vague immigration pledge from McConnell
- Shutdown fight exposes deep rift inside GOP over immigration
Schumer Says Deal Reached to Reopen Government
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The U.S. government shutdown is nearly over after three days, and for many Democrats, it couldn’t end soon enough.
The impasse exposed the Democrats’ limits on how far they were willing to go with the fight, at the risk of looking beholden to one part of their base -- activists pushing to allow the so-called dreamers to stay in the U.S. legally.