You Vote: With a deal struck to avoid a gov’t shutdown, what does this portend for the coming year?

The Senate on Thursday evening struck a deal that will avoid a partial government shutdown by separating the Department of Homeland Security’s funding bill from a larger package and passing a continuing resolution on it. The agreement comes one day before the funding deadline to avert the partial shutdown. 
The deal is expected to separate the DHS legislation from a “minibus” of five other funding bills and the Senate would then pass a continuing resolution to keep the department funded at its current level through Feb. 13.

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