The U.S. Senate approved a deal to end the government shutdown after eight Democrats sided with all Republicans. It now heads to the House of Representatives.
North Carolina politicians are beginning to weigh in on a deal to end the federal government shutdown, which won tentative approval in the U.S. Senate Sunday with a final vote expected soon.
Eight Democrats in the Senate voted with every Republican to approve the deal that would begin paying federal employees again, head off flight cancellations and pay for the food stamps program known as SNAP until at least next September.
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The deal does nothing about subsidies for Affordable Care Act premiums, which Democrats had previously said was what was driving them to reject deals to end the shutdown. The ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of this year. When they do, people who buy health insurance through the individual marketplace — including about 1 million North Carolinians — will see their premiums rise by thousands of dollars per year. Most Democrats want to extend the subsidies; most Republicans don’t.
Once the deal passes the Senate, it’ll head to the U.
