The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
On Day 40 of the funding impasse, enough Senate Democrats decided to vote for cloture on the newly introduced spending package unveiled Sunday to get over the 60-vote hurdle and finally break the logjam.
An initial test vote Sunday night on the revised, beefed-up legislation got over that threshold — just barely, with exactly 60 votes — though final passage is unlikely until later this week.
