A record-setting 41-day US government shutdown is on a path to end as soon as Wednesday after the Senate passed a temporary funding measure backed by a group of eight centrist Democrats.

The Senate’s 60-40 vote Monday comes amid escalating flight disruptions, food aid delays and frustrations in a federal workforce that has mostly gone without pay for more than a month.

The House, which has not cast a vote since Sept. 19, still must pass the bill before sending it to President Donald Trump for his signature. Trump has endorsed the measure.

The Democratic moderates reached a deal that dropped the party’s demand to renew expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, infuriating progressives who had rallied to the high-stakes confrontation with Trump.

The Republican-controlled House must still a

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