Eight Democratic senators joined most of the Senate Republicans late Sunday night to advance a short-term funding bill that could bring an end to the longest government shutdown in history .

But the two Minnesota senators — also Democrats — decried the deal, with Sen. Tina Smith calling it a "mistake."

"I will not support this bill that completely fails to help Americans afford their health care," Smith wrote on social media. "Trump and Republicans more than doubled American's health care premiums. And for 40 days they have refused to lift a finger to do a thing about it. In fact, they've made it worse, by taking food away from kids. Allowing this to pass is a mistake."

Fourteen previous Senate votes fell short of the 60 needed to move legislation forward. The major sticking point w

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