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Three-fifths of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative,

the motion upon reconsideration is agreed to.

Lawmakers in Washington inch closer to reopening the government.

It's Monday, November 10th,

and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.

I'm Shiko Theuri.

Today on the show, President Trump pardons his allies involved in the effort to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The thing is, they're charged with state crimes, not federal ones.

So the question is, are these merely symbolic pardons, or is the president really trying to test that fundamental limitation

on the scope of the pardon power? And a rustafari man's dreadlocks were shaved against his will

while in prison. His case is now before the Supreme Court. But first, our country's longest

government shutdown may be ending as soon as this week.

Seven Democrats and one independent joined Republicans to advance a deal that would fund the

government through the end of January. That deal includes a promise to vote on extended

health care subsidies, but it falls short of actually funding those subsidies. Democratic Senator Tim Kane of Virginia voted yes on the deal.

I became convinced that the Republican red line is we won't talk about health insurance until the government reopens was not fake.

One of the things you do in negotiation, you just don't bang your head endlessly against the red line. You try to find

big gains in places that aren't behind red lines, and that's what we were able to do. And we got a

fighting chance of winning this health care vote. Dems have got the high ground on it now. People

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