Washington, Jan. 23 (TNS): The US government partial shutdown is set to end after Senate Republicans and Democrats voted to approve a temporary funding bill.
Senator Chuck Schumer said Democrats would support the bill if Republicans addressed a programme that shields young immigrants from deportation.
Democrats refused to vote for the bill unless they secured protections for recipients of the Obama-era programme.
Mr Schumer said the three-day shutdown was expected to end in a few hours.
“We will vote today to re-open the government to continue negotiating a global agreement,” Mr Schumer said.
He lambasted President Donald Trump for failing to help reach a bipartisan deal, adding that he had not spoken with him since a meeting on Friday before the shutdown began.
“The great deal-making president sat on the sidelines,” Mr Schumer said.
The New York senator said he was hopeful about talks on so-called Dreamers, more than 700,000 young immigrants brought to the US as children who were protected under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme.
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said his party intended to consider legislation “that would address Daca, border security and related issues, as well as disaster relief”.
