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US Government Shutdown Highlights: Shutdown Ends After House Passes Bill
Feb 09, 2018 12:49:43 (IST)
Fate Of The Bill Uncertain? 

The bipartisan measure, which passed 71 to 28, was now headed to the House of Representatives for what is expected to be a pre-dawn Friday vote, as congressional leaders scrambled to restrict the second government shutdown in three weeks to just a matter of hours, news agency AFP reported. 

But the fate of the bill remained uncertain in the lower chamber of Congress, where fiscal conservatives have bridled at excessive spending allowed under the budget deal, and liberals complain that it does nothing to shield many undocumented immigrants from deportation, a longstanding Democratic priority.

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