Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Feb. 7 said Senate leaders have reached a "significant agreement" over a two-year budget deal. (U.S. Senate)The crafty Senate majority and minority leaders announced a two-year budget deal that marks the end of the disastrous 2011 Budget Control Act. Pro-DACA advocates ironically have a better shot at getting a deal than they did when they were tying DACA to the budget. For all of Trump’s outbursts, cheers for a shutdown and determination that an egregious immigration bill be tied to the budget, McConnell ultimately ignored him. If this does unlock the budget jam, it portends well for infrastructure, votes to patch up Obamacare and other priorities.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2018 18:50 UTC