The House Prepares to Vote On Bill to End the Government Shutdown

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  A House vote expected tonight would reopen the U.S.

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  government after a record-breaking shutdown.

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  Plus, what a divided Fed means for next month's decision on interest rate cuts.

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  It's unusual that you see this kind of fracturing of the Fed and it has to do with three big mysteries the economy faces right now.

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  And it's the end of an era for the U.S.

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  penny.

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  It's Wednesday, November 12th.

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  I'm Alex Ocele for The Wall Street Journal.

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  This is the PM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

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  The House is assembling for an expected vote this evening on a bill that ends the government shutdown.

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  The package extends funding for much of the federal government through January and includes funding for the full year for the Agriculture Department,

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  Military Construction and the Legislative Branch.

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  For more on what's in the bill, Anvi Bhutani joins me now from Washington.

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  Anvi, what else is in this spending bill?

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  Yeah, there's a couple of interesting nuggets hidden in this spending bill.

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  One of them is that there's language that would guarantee the reversal of federal layoffs by the Trump administration during the shutdown.

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  And it also means that there'll be no more mass firings until the end of January.

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  And the bill will make sure that everyone that missed their paychecks was furloughed will get their back pay.

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  This was a hot point of controversy throughout the shutdown.

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