The state’s top Republicans wanted to join President Trump’s push to redraw congressional maps. But plans for a special session fell apart when some lawmakers resisted.
The judge instead adopted a map drawn by a centrist coalition. Democrats celebrated the ruling ahead of the 2026 midterms, but Republicans vowed to fight it.
Moderate Black voters and young progressives favored Zohran Mamdani for mayor, while Andrew Cuomo won many wealthy New Yorkers and those who voted for Donald Trump.
The vote, on Day 41 of the shutdown, signaled an end in sight to weeks of gridlock. Eight members of the Democratic Caucus supplied the critical backing.
Senator John Thune, the majority leader, speaking to reporters after the vote on Monday. Democrats accepted his offer to hold a vote on expiring health care subsidies later this year.
Robert Harshbarger Jr. pleaded guilty in 2013 to health care fraud and distributing a misbranded drug. His wife, Diana Harshbarger, is a member of Congress.
Representative Diana Harshbarger, Republican of Tennessee, was a corporate officer for American Inhalation Medication Specialists, the company through which her husband distributed a misbranded drug.
For 40 days, Senator Chuck Schumer kept his caucus unified. But an end approached without an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies that Democrats had demanded.
Senator Angus King, one of the senators who negotiated with Republicans, said that the length of the shutdown had pushed some colleagues to support a deal without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought.
A small but critical group of Democrats backed legislation to fund the government, providing the votes to move forward with a spending package that would end the shutdown in coming days.
Senator Angus King spoke to reporters alongside Senator Tim Kaine and Senator Maggie Hassan on Capitol Hill on Sunday night, to explain why they voted with Republicans to move toward ending the government shutdown.
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