The government shutdown is one step closer to ending after the House Rules Committee advanced the Senate ’s short-term funding bill Tuesday night.

The panel voted 8-4, along party lines, to pass the measure, teeing up the legislation for a full floor vote on Wednesday.

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Democrats used the Rules meeting to criticize the Senate deal, which left out an extension to expiring enhanced Obamacare tax subsidies the party had been trying to secure in return for ending the shutdown, offering a total of 43 amendments to the spending re

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