US EditionTrump signs funding bill into law, ending record-long government shutdown
The funding package includes back pay for furloughed workers and restores veteran services, ending a 43-day shutdown caused by a partisan dispute over health care subsidies.
- President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that had left federal workers unpaid and caused major disruptions.
- The bill funds the government through January 30 and reverses the firing of federal workers during the shutdown. Democrats wanted to extend health care subsidies but Republicans said it was a separate issue.
- The shutdown intensified partisan divisions, with Trump taking unusual unilateral actions to pressure Democrats into concessions.
- The bill passed Congress on largely party-line votes — 222-209 in the House and earlier in the Senate — before reaching Trump’s desk for signature.
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Trump signs deal to end longest U.S. government shutdown in history
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, roughly two hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system. The Republican-controlled chamber passed the package by a vote of 222-209, with Trump’s support largely keeping his party together in the face of v…
President Donald Trump last night signed a funding package to reopen the federal government, officially ending the longest shutdown in the country's history.
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