By Richard Cowan and Nolan D. McCaskill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A weekend deal to end the longest U.S. government shutdown in history divided Senate Democrats and angered the party’s vocal liberal base, who turned their vitriol on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for the second time this year.

Schumer and his fellow Democrats in the Senate triggered the shutdown seeking to prevent the expiration of health insurance subsidies for 24 million Americans, a calculated move after the New York lawmaker outraged fellow Democrats in March by agreeing to a deal to avoid a shutdown.

Personally, he held firm on Sunday, voting against the measure to move towards reopening the government. But eight members of his caucus – enough to advance the measure – broke ranks, arguing that President Donald Tr

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