WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the budget battle (all times local):

It looks like the government shutdown will end soon. The Senate has advanced a bill reopening federal agencies through Feb. 8 after Democrats relented and lifted their blockade against the legislation. The shutdown began Saturday after Democrats derailed a Republican measure that would have kept the government open until Feb. 16. Trump issued a statement Monday afternoon after roughly 25 senators from both parties helped negotiate an end to the federal government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said negotiations were still underway late into Sunday night, with a vote to break a Democratic filibuster on a short-term funding bill scheduled for noon Monday. It was particularly disappointing that for days, Senate Democrats blocked a vote on a piece of legislation that not only would have avoided a government shutdown and pay our troops, but contained many priorities – like CHIP and delaying the Cadillac tax – that they actually support. The Senate still must vote on final passage to send the bill to the House. Schumer said ahead of the procedural vote at noon that "we will vote today to reopen the government to continue negotiating" a global agreement with the commitment from GOP leaders that if there isn't a deal by the Feb. 8 deadline, the Senate will immediately proceed to legislation dealing with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. After McConnell’s announcement, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned they still have to reach an agreement on the way forward that is acceptable to both parties. The Los Angeles-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights says Democrats “need to grow some courage.”

The American Civil Liberties Union says Republicans and Democrats “betrayed our American values and allowed bigotry and fear to prevail.”

America’s Voice executive director Frank Sharry says he was moved to tears of disappointment that Democrats “blinked.”

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6:15 p.m.

Congress has approved a bipartisan agreement to re-open the federal government after a three-day partial shutdown. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the legislation as soon as he receives it. If he does not, of course, and I expect he will, he will have breached the trust of not only the Democratic Senators but members of his own party as well.
The United States Senate reaches an agreement to reopen federal agencies through to February 8. A bill is working its way through the legislative process. The first Senate vote was 81–18.