The deal would fund the government through January 30 and protect federal workers from being fired during that time.

Michigan's Democratic senators, Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, voted against the resolution, citing a lack of action on health care costs.

The agreement includes full funding for agriculture and veterans programs and a future vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies.

A handful of Democratic senators voted with Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate to advance a resolution that could reopen the federal government after the longest shutdown in the nation's history.

Michigan's two Democratic U.S. senators, Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, voted against the resolution, however, as it passed a key procedural hurdle late Sunday, Nov. 9, by a vote of 60-40.

The resolution — whi

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