IT’S OVER

President Donald Trump signed H.R. 5371 on Wednesday, providing funding for federal agencies through January 30, 2026, and back pay for over 1 million furloughed workers, after the House passed it 222-209 with six moderate Democrats joining Republicans. The 43-day shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, stemmed from partisan disputes over funding for illegal immigrant aid and further Obamacare bailouts, causing $1.5 trillion in economic damage, flight disruptions, and loss of benefits for millions. Trump called the resolution a stand against Democratic ‘extortion’ while Democrats criticized it as a Republican capitulation, exposing party divisions ahead of future elections.

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The longest shutdown in our nation’s history.

The House on Wednesday passed a sweeping spending package to reopen the government, setting the stage to end a marathon shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — that churned economic turmoil around the country and sparked an internal battle among Democrats over the future of the party and how best to take on President Trump. The vote in the lower chamber was 222-209, almost strictly along party lines. Only two Republicans opposed the measure, to protest deficit spending, while six Democrats hopped the aisle to support it, citing the importance of getting federal funding flowing again…. “I respect Chuck Schumer. I think he had a great, long-standing career. But I’m afraid that it may be time for the Senate Democrats to get a new leader,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) said this week (The Hill).

Mike Johnson: The peaceful sunset outside my office window tonight is a reminder to me that God still has His hand of blessing over our nation. Thankfully, after 42 long days, we will soon get our vote to finally end the painful Democrat Shutdown — and get the American government open and operating again for the people (Johnson).

Trump signs funding bill to end historic, 43-day government shutdown

By: Josh Christenson and Victor Nava, NY Post, Nov. 12, 2025:

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed a funding bill Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in US history, hours after the House of Representatives passed legislation ending the 43-day standoff.

“It’s an honor now to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again,” Trump said in the Oval Office, flanked by House Republican leaders as well as business and union leaders.

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The president blasted “extremist” Democrats for shutting down the government, accusing them of attempting to “extort American taxpayers.”

“This cost the country $1.5 trillion,” Trump said of the shutdown, describing it as a “little excursion” that Democrats took “purely for political reasons.”

Trump re-upped his demand for Senate Republicans to “terminate” the filibuster — so that “this would never happen again” — and called for the “massive amount” of federal funding for Obamacare to be “paid directly to the people of our country, so that they can buy their own healthcare.”

In a 222-209 vote, the House voted to pass the funding bill it received from the Senate which will restart paychecks for federal workers and air traffic controllers, and fund food assistance programs.

The legislation finally “reopens the government, restores critical services, and puts an end to the needless hardship Democrats have inflicted on the country,” said GOP House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole of Oklahoma.

“We feel very relieved tonight,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters after the vote. “The Democrat shutdown is finally over thanks to House and Senate Republicans, who stood together to get the job done.”

Johnson slammed Democrats for using “the American people as leverage in this political game,” arguing that the outcome was “totally foreseeable.”

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“It’s something that is very difficult to forgive,” he continued, describing the shutdown “stunt” as “utterly pointless and foolish.”
The U.S. Capitol at sunset.