It's Monday, November 10th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day.

The show that wonders where Donald Trump was racing to in his limousine this weekend.

If you guessed that he was headed to the Capitol to resolve the longest government shutdown in American history, you would be wrong.

He was, in fact, racing to his golf course in West Palm Beach.

You know, if only golf courses were federal agencies, the shutdown would have lasted, like, 14 seconds, tops.

On today's show, the fight to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program continues, and Trump promises, quote, a dividend of at least $2,000 a person from tariffs

to most American citizens, before his Treasury Secretary immediately tries to clean that up.

But let's start with the longest government shutdown in American history,

which might be coming to an end soon.

As of our recording time on Sunday evening,

senators from both parties reached a deal that could bring an end to the shutdown,

which has lasted well over a month.

The deal would include a new stopgap measure

that would fund the government through January, plus three different spending measures. One of them,

the 2006 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs funding bill would allocate $153 billion

to fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and infrastructure programs at the Pentagon for a full year.

In a win for Democrats, these three bills do not include most of the brutal spending cuts that Trump

proposed in his budget a few months ago. No longer would the government accountability office's funding

be cut in half. Democrats are also negotiating the rehiring of more than 4,000 federal employees

who were laid off during the shutdown, but Democrats are not getting the primary thing that they've

wanted. For weeks, Democrats insisted that Republicans agree to extend the Affordable Care Act's insurance

subsidies. But now that demand has been reduced. As of now, Republicans have only agreed to hold a vote on the issue next month, but have not guaranteed any support. I spoke with Stephen Newcomb, a congressional reporter for Axios, on Sunday afternoon, as the details of an agreement were still being hammered out. Stephen, welcome to what a day.

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