Senate Leaders Reopen Budget Negotiations To Avert Default After House Failure

WASHINGTON — Moments after House Republicans failed to advance a plan to end the government shutdown and avert default, Senate leaders took matters back into their own hands.

Aides to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) confirmed the two had reopened talks that were put on hold earlier to allow the House to act first.

A Senate Democratic aide told The Huffington Post on Tuesday evening that a deal between the two was “imminent.”

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