Both of Rhode Island’s U.S. senators voted Monday for an agreement to end the federal government shutdown.
In a statement, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Democrats and Republicans negotiated in good faith, despite what he called “confused and conflicting messages” from President Trump.
Whitehouse said the agreement will lead to renewed funding for a children’s health insurance program and a chance to vote on a solution for the so-called Dreamers, young people who were brought to the U.S. by immigrant parents as children.
Rhode Island’s other U.S. senator, Jack Reed, also voted for the agreement to end the shutdown.
The congressional delegations from Connecticut and Massachusetts both voted against the budget stopgap proposal.
