The U.S. Senate voted today to strip a budget measure of language that would defund Obamacare come the next fiscal year and keep the government running through November. The legislation now moves back to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives who can either send it back for revision, or pass it into law. Any decision will be made with country-wide implications, though, should a compromise not be reached before Tuesday when non-essential government services and employees may be out of work for an extended period of time.

A temporary bill to keep the government running in the form it’s accustomed to through November 15 has cleared the Senate in a 54-44 vote despite efforts by some — cough, Ted Cruz, cough — to delay a vote as long as possible.

The primary issue from the side of the GOP, though, is that they don’t want the President’s flagship Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, to receive any government funding in the first place.

According to the Associated Press, “House GOP leaders have yet to determine how to win enough conservative support to pass a new bill.” Speaker of the House John Boehner just yesterday told the Huffington Post that he doesn’t foresee any government shutdown in the immediate future, perhaps alluding to an on-the-down-low settlement in store for Congress.

It’s unclear how the Congress will proceed should the House continue to refuse to enact the bill, or the temporary stopgap reached today, as Democrats are holding firm in the trenches showing no sign of conceding.

Politico notes that Cruz’s 21-hour faux filibuster may have cost GOP some clout with some Senate Republicans deferring to the Democrats, though interestingly it may have helped to further any Presidential aspirations for the Canadian-born Senator from Texas per a recent survey from Public Policy Polling.

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