Article snippet: MORE on Monday evening signed a government spending measure, ending a government shutdown that began at midnight on Friday. The stop-gap funding, which expires Feb. 8, passed both the Senate and House by large margins earlier in the day. So as the government prepares to reopen, who emerged as the winners and losers of the first big congressional controversy of 2018? WINNERS Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) McConnell is widely perceived to have got the better of his Democratic counterpart, Minority Leader MORE (D-N.Y.). McConnell gave up little by simply pledging to have a vote on DACA. His broader argument — that DACA was not sufficiently important to force a shuttering of the government — also carried the day, at least for now. McConnell is hardly out of the woods yet — the process of trying to get a DACA deal remains fraught with difficulty and Democrats will accuse him of bad faith if he comes up short. But the wily McConnell has proven once again that it is hard to outflank him on tactics. Senate centrists A group of about 20 senators broke the logjam with talks on Sunday. In a body that is often slammed as hopelessly dysfunctional, they actually got something done. Democrats who face challenging reelection races were central, Sens. MORE (Mo.) among them. But Republicans, including several critics of President Trump, also played their part. Sen. MORE (Alaska) also important players. None of this guarantees that there will be a later, bigger deal to... Link to the full article to read more