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Congress passes massive budget deal before sunrise to end government shutdown

Congress passed a bipartisan budget deal in the early hours of the day on Friday, ending a government shutdown that lasted just a few hours.

  • Congress passed a bipartisan budget plan in the early hours on Friday, ending a government shutdown that lasted just a few hours.
  • Democrats were all over the place in a last minute campaign to vote against the bill, but their numbers were not enough in their own conference.

WASHINGTON — Congress passed a bipartisan budget deal in the early hours of the day on Friday, ending a government shutdown that lasted just a few hours.

The vote in the Senate finally came late into the night after Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul spent hours on the floor railing against government spending and what he said was

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