Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Senate Majority Leader John Thune dismissed the chamber following a late-night vote that could lead to an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. After six excruciating weeks.
Chapter 2: What recent Senate vote could end the government shutdown?
I will stop talking and let all of you get some rest. The Senate voted Monday night 60 to 40 on a stopgap measure that keeps the government open until the end of January after a small group of Democrats and an independent cut a deal with Republicans. However, the agreement does not include the extension of health care subsidies that Democrats sought. The next step is up to the House.
House Speaker Mike Johnson calling lawmakers back to Washington with an eye toward a potential vote as soon as Wednesday. At the White House, President Trump says he supports the Senate deal that would end the government shutdown, which has now entered its 42nd day. Democrats joined Republicans on the agreement to temporarily fund the government.
Here's NPR's Deepa Shivram reporting on President Trump's reaction.
Trump told reporters that the government would be opening back up, quote, very quickly, though the House would still need to pass any short-term package before Trump can sign it.
Based on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything. And we have support from enough Democrats. And we're going to be opening up our country.
Trump called the deal, quote, very good and said he would abide by it, including the measure that reverses the mass firings of government employees that took place during the shutdown. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
When the House returns to Capitol Hill, Adelita Grijalva is expected to be sworn in more than a month after she was elected to represent her Arizona district. She's expected to give the final signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
The chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, has apologized for an error in judgment in a documentary about President Trump last year as Philip Marks reports from London.
The apology from BBC chairman Samir Shah came in a letter to a UK parliamentary committee. President Trump had written to the BBC over the weekend, asking for it to, quote, appropriately compensate him for a documentary that the BBC said had misleadingly suggested he'd issued a violent directive to those protesting the 2020 presidential election results.
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Chapter 3: How did President Trump react to the Senate's agreement?
Several inches expected. I'm Joel Snyder. This is NPR News.