The world's biggest economy edges closer to getting its government employees back to work.
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Leanna Byrne.
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Well, after 40 days,
it looks like the United States may finally be edging towards an end to its record-breaking government shutdown.
The Senate voted 60 to 40 to advance a bill that would get some federal workers paid and reopen parts of the government.
But the House still has to agree, and Democratic leaders are far from convinced.
Let's go to our correspondent Michelle Flurry in New York.
Michelle, you can explain this to us.
What's in this bill?
Which agencies are getting funding?
And what's still uncertain?
Yeah, so I mean,
I think people were surprised by just how quickly we suddenly got to this sort of light at the end of the tunnel,
this breakthrough in Washington that ends a stalemate that has now gone on for 40 days.
What happened was that eight Democrats agreed to support a funding package that would,
as you say, fund multiple agencies and programs until the end of January.
In exchange for that,
you've got commitments from the administration that they will rehire government work as fired at the start of the funding lapse.