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The 69 hour Government Shutdown is over. The House and the Senate both agreed on a few issues to end the shutdown. Even though the agreement is temporary, at least Government workers are back at work today. According to reports from Capitol Hill, here are the talking points that ended the shutdown as reported on WTOP.com
“—Short-term funding for the government through Feb. 8. The Republicans had been insisting on longer, at least a month.
—The long-delayed, six-year renewal of a popular health insurance program for children in low-income families. The program known as CHIP became an unshakeable pillar for the Republicans throughout the budget drama, and Democrats were hard-pressed to reject such a universally accepted plan.
—Delays to three taxes under the Obama-era health care law: the medical device tax through 2019, the so-called Cadillac tax on generous employer-paid health care plans through 2021; and a tax on health insurance companies through 2019.
__WHAT’S NOT IN IT
—Any move to halt deportation efforts aimed at immigrant “Dreamers,” who were brought to the U.S. as children and are now in the country illegally. President Donald Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, late last year, but he gave Congress until March 5 to pass legislation extending it. DACA protects some 700,000 immigrants from deportation.
—New funds to toughen border security, including money to start building Trump’s long-promised wall spanning the U.S.-Mexico border. The wall was one of his leading campaign promises, and a number of congressional Republicans have continually stressed border security in the budget talks.
—Longer-term funding for the government.”
