Hooray! He doesn't have to avoid Davos!

Democrats agreed to advance a stopgap spending measure lasting until Feb. 8 after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promised to allow an immigration bill to reach the floor next month. The vote was 81-18.

  The Hill

Yeah, do we trust that old bastard?

Earlier Monday, Democrats said they could not feel assured that McConnell would hold up his bargain after he promised moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) during the tax reform debate to pass legislation shoring up the individual insurance market before the end of the year. That bill is still in limbo.

Yeah, she got screwed, didn't she?

McConnell also promised Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) — according to Flake’s version of events — that he would bring DACA legislation to the floor in January.

And that didn't happen, either. Why does anyone trust that bastard?

Sen. Chris Coons (Del.), a Democratic moderate [...] said Democrats wrestled with the question of whether they could trust McConnell.

“One of the challenges we have as a body, several members who are part of this negotiating group … famously had promises from Leader McConnell that certain things would happen” and they didn’t happen, Coons told CNN’s “New Day” early Monday.

So what happened? I'm guessing they decided they were going to get blamed for withholding money from the military, when instead they should have been playing the video of McConnell denying Claire McCaskill's motion to protect military pay over and over and over at every opportunity, taking out ads on every major TV and radio station in the country.

Schumer said McConnell has committed that if negotiators fail to reach an immigration deal before the stopgap spending measure expires on Feb. 8 “the Senate will immediately proceed to consideration of legislation” to protect Dreamers.

Whatever that means. It's not like Democrats control anything.

The funding measure includes a six-year funding extension for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a critical priority for members of both parties. As many as 20 states would have run out of CHIP money affecting millions of children if Congress did not reach a deal by Feb. 1.

One good thing.

The bill still needs to win approval from the House and secure President Trump’s signature, but both are expected to happen soon.

Nothing is a sure thing when you're talking about Trump, but I'm assuming he'll want to get to Davos without the embarrassment of a shutdown. As for Ryan? Who the hell knows about that guy?And what if McConnell and Ryan have worked out an agreement that McConnell will negotiate in February, but Ryan won't bring any vote to the floor in the House? Don't put it past them.

The three-week bill set to advance is identical to the four-week spending measure the House sent to the Senate last week except the funding will expire on Feb. 8 instead of Feb. 16.

I may need to be reminded why it wasn't okay then, but it is okay now. That one week made all the difference?

Trump's going to take credit for this, isn't he?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.