The President Donald Trump, late on Wednesday night, signed legislation to reopen federal government following a 43-day historic shutdown. This was the longest shutdown in U.S. modern history.
After the Senate passed the bill earlier, the House of Representatives approved it by a vote of 222-209, providing funding to most federal agencies until Jan. 30 2026. It also extends the full-year budgets for the Departments of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs and for the legislative branch.
The bill also reinstates backpay and pay for more than one-million federal workers who have been furloughed during the shutdown or were forced to work unpaid. Some 650,000 workers will return to their jobs as soon as Thursday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson called it “a clean solution that reopens the government and restores service” while Senate Democrats criticized its failure to extend the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) key subsidies for health insurance.
White House officials stated that the agency’s operations will resume as soon as Trump signs the bill.
