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President Donald Trump late Wedneday night signed a bill that will fund the government through Jan. 30 after the House passed it earlier Wednesday.
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Which party do Americans think won government shutdown negotiations? Republicans, new poll says
The results come in stark contrast to polls taken amid the shutdown that showed Republicans shouldering the brunt of voter criticism.
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President Trump signs government funding bill, ending shutdown after a record 43-day disruption
House lawmakers are making a long-awaited return to potentially end the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.
The legislation, approved earlier this week by the Senate, faces a vote Wednesday in the lower chamber, which is returning to session for the first time since Sept. 19.
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has come to an end after 43 days. President Donald Trump signed legislation on Wednesday night from the White House that reopens the federal government and starts to resolve the mass chaos the shutdown created.
The Trump administration has already flipped on one key Democrat condition for ending the government shutdown. Seven rogue Democrats and one Independent sided with Republicans in a Senate vote this week to pass a compromise deal to reopen the government, which has been shut since Oct. 1.
By a wide margin, Americans say it was Republicans and President Trump who succeeded in getting more of what they wanted from the negotiations to end the shutdown. This survey recontacted Americans first interviewed in our early-November poll, while the shutdown was in effect.
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.
The House of Representatives passed the Senate's bipartisan compromise to end the longest government shutdown in history on Wednesday night.
President Donald Trump signed a funding bill Wednesday night, ending a 43-day U.S. government shutdown. Further debates on health care, Epstein files and payment for federal workers loom.
About 1.4 million employees missed their first full paychecks on Oct. 24 after receiving only partial pay on Oct. 10.