Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Senate is set to vote Thursday on a year-long appropriations bill to fund the Defense Department as the government enters the 16th day of its shutdown over a stopgap funding bill.
In addition to the appropriations bill, the Senate is scheduled to hold a 10th vote late Thursday morning on the legislation to reopen the government.
Senate Republican leader John Thune said his party plans to attach additional funding bills to the Pentagon measure, though it's unclear if Democrats support the idea, CBS News reported. The additional bills would seek to fund the Departments of Health and Human Services, and Labor.
The main issue holding up passage of the stopgap measure is subsidies for Affordable Care Act premiums set to expire in the new year.
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