WASHINGTON - Lawmakers have agreed upon a stopgap bill that will reopen the government after a Monday evening vote.

But the record-long government shutdown is not quite over.

The House must now vote on the legislation before it can head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature.

The final Senate vote was 60-40.

What they're saying:

House Speaker Mike Johnson urged lawmakers to start returning to Washington "right now" given shutdown-related travel delays.

"We have to do this as quickly as possible," said Johnson, who has kept the House out of session since mid-September, when the House passed a bill to continue government funding.

The backstory:

After weeks of negotiations, the moderate Senate Democrats agreed to reopen the government without a guaranteed extension of

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