WE'VE GOT A DEAL: Government shutdown looks set to end as Democrats surrender

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• The Senate is set to clear a procedural hurdle and allow a funding bill to reopen the government to move forward.
• The deal was reached after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell committed to bring a bill to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to the Senate floor.
• The House will need to vote on the measure in order for the bill to go to President Donald Trump to sign.

The Senate was set to clear a key procedural hurdle on a deal to fund the government on Monday, taking a large step toward ending the federal government shutdown.

The cloture vote, which allows the funding bill to move forward without a filibuster, looked likely to clear the 60-vote threshold with support from both parties.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Democrats will vote for the upcoming bill during a speech on the Senate floor.

"The Republican leader and I have come to an arrangement," Schumer said. "We will vote today to reopen the government."

The deal will keep the government funded until February 8, rather than the February 16 deadline in the original House-passed funding bill that was rejected in the Senate on Friday.

The House needs to vote on the bill will before President Donald Trump can sign it to reopen the government.

The impasse was broken after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to have a vote on a bill to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program. Securing a vote on the DACA issue was a key priority for Democrats.

It's unclear, however, whether House GOP leadership made any commitments to hold such a vote, potentially scuttling movement on DACA. McConnell previously promised Republican Sen. Jeff Flake there would be a DACA vote by the end of January, which does not look likely.

The program will expire on March 5, potentially leaving nearly 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as minors at risk of deportation.

The bill will also extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for six years. CHIP funding technically expired in September.