U.S. Senate leaders reach funding deal to avoid shutdown during campaign season

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Democrats sought to extend an expiring health insurance tax credit and refused to go along with a short-term spending bill that did not include that priority.
47% : Budget impasse shuts down U.S. Department of Homeland Security A second spending battle over funding for the Department of Homeland Security took 76 days to resolve when Democrats refused to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol without changes to those operations.
43% : In another major difference with the House bill, Democrats say they also were able to include language that will ensure the administration cannot transfer funds from other programmes to the Border Patrol.

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