{"id":38027,"date":"2025-11-13T05:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38027\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:43:15","slug":"trump-signs-funding-bill-to-end-historic-43-day-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38027\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs funding bill to end historic, 43-day government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump signed a funding bill Wednesday\u00a0to end\u00a0the longest government shutdown<\/a>\u00a0in US history, hours after the House of Representatives passed legislation\u00a0ending\u00a0the 43-day standoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor now to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again,\u201d Trump said in the Oval Office, flanked by House Republican leaders as well as business and union leaders.<\/p>\n

The president blasted \u201cextremist\u201d Democrats for shutting down the government, accusing them of attempting to \u201cextort American taxpayers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Trump said that the Democrats were attempting to \u201cextort American taxpayers\u201d by shutting down the government. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cost the country $1.5 trillion,\u201d Trump said of the shutdown, describing it as a \u201clittle excursion\u201d that Democrats took \u201cpurely for political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump re-upped his demand for Senate Republicans to \u201cterminate\u201d the filibuster<\/a> \u2014 so that \u201cthis would never happen again\u201d \u2014 and called for the \u201cmassive amount\u201d of federal funding for Obamacare to be \u201cpaid directly to the people of our country, so that they can buy their own healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The legislation finally \u201creopens the government, restores critical services, and puts an end to the needless hardship Democrats have inflicted on the country,\u201d said GOP House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole of Oklahoma.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives voted in favor of the bill in a 222-209 vote on Wednesday REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel very relieved tonight,\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters after the vote. \u201cThe Democrat shutdown is finally over thanks to House and Senate Republicans, who stood together to get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson slammed Democrats<\/a> for using \u201cthe American people as leverage in this political game,\u201d arguing that the outcome was \u201ctotally foreseeable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that is very difficult to forgive,\u201d he continued, describing the shutdown \u201cstunt\u201d as \u201cutterly pointless and foolish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump signed the stopgap funding bill after the House passed it to end the longest government shutdown\u00a0in US history on Wednesday. Getty Images<\/p>\n

House Democrats lamented that their Senate Democratic colleagues caved with nothing to show for it on healthcare, their stated political reason for holding the government hostage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI rise in opposition to this bill that does nothing, not one thing to address the Republican health care crisis, amid a cost-of-living crisis,\u201d Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said in a floor speech ahead of the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his speech, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) proclaimed, \u201cThis fight is not over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats will continue to press the case to say to our Republican colleagues, you have another opportunity to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,\u201d Jeffries said Tuesday. Raphael Liy\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are only two ways that this fight will end, Mr. Speaker: either Republicans finally decide to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits this year, or the American people will throw Republicans out of their jobs next year and end the speakership of Donald J. Trump once and for all,\u201d the Democratic leader said.<\/p>\n

The legislation will return federal workers to their jobs with backpay, reopen executive branch agencies that provide critical veterans services and other benefits like food stamps and fully fund the government until at least Jan. 30.<\/p>\n

After that, some spending for SNAP benefits, veterans programs, legislative branch activities and military construction, among other items, will continue until Sept. 30 \u2014 at which point the 2026 fiscal year ends.<\/p>\n

Some spending for SNAP benefits, veterans programs, legislative branch activities and military construction, among other items, will continue until Sept. 30 AP<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers and congressional staffers had gone without pay for more than 40 days \u2014 leading the top union backing government employees to pressure Democrats into ending the shutdown.<\/p>\n

There had also been increasing flight delays and cancellations due to the lack of staffing at air traffic control towers, as unpaid workers were not showing up to their jobs.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had warned that if the government remained closed with the Thanksgiving holiday nearing, there could be an up to 20% reduction in US airspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers and congressional staffers had gone without pay for more than 40 days. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of Sunday, nearly half of all domestic flights and US flights were either canceled or delayed. And it\u2019s a very serious situation,\u201d noted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday, giving his chamber 36 hours to reconvene<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage of President Trump and national politics for the latest news and analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cShutting down the government never produces anything,\u201d Johnson added. \u201cIt never has.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six House Democrats voted for the funding measure in the House\u2019s first legislative move since going into recess after Sept. 19.<\/p>\n

Seven Democratic senators had crossed the aisle to vote with the GOP for the end of the shutdown on Monday, though Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was not among them. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Don Davis (D-NC), Adam Gray (D-Calif.), Jared Golden (D-Maine),\u00a0Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and\u00a0Tom Suozzi (D-NY) crossed party lines to vote with the majority.<\/p>\n

Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Greg Steube (R-Fla.), voted against the Senate-passed bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not in good conscience support a resolution that creates a self-indulgent legal provision for certain senators to enrich themselves by suing the Justice Department using taxpayer dollars,\u201d Steube\u00a0said of his no vote on X<\/a>, referring to a provision in the bill that allows Republican senators snooped on by former special counsel Jack Smith to seek compensation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flights were heavily impacted from the shutdown, with delays occurring at airports across the country. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no reason the House should have been forced to eat this garbage to end the Schumer Shutdown,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On Monday, eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus crossed the aisle to vote with the GOP for the end of the shutdown, though Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was not among them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he made a mistake in going too far,\u201d Trump told\u00a0Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Ingraham Angle\u201d on Monday. \u201cHe thought he could break the Republicans, and the Republicans broke him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShutting down the government never produces anything,\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday. \u201cIt never has.\u201d AP<\/p>\n

Before that, all but three from the Senate Democratic caucus had voted 14 times against reopening the government as they held out through last week\u2019s Election Day to activate the progressive base and turnout Democratic voters in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. <\/p>\n

One of the senators who sided with the GOP, Angus King (I-Maine), admitted bluntly in an interview Monday, \u201cStanding up to Trump didn\u2019t work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Independent leader who caucuses with Democrats told The Post that Schumer and the other senators held out in the fight to secure an extension of ObamaCare tax subsidies, which will receive a vote before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Senator Angus King said that \u201cstanding up to Trump didn\u2019t work.\u201d Nathan Posner\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has pledged to hold a vote on the tax credits, while Johnson hasn\u2019t committed. Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm that, without the vote, health care premiums will skyrocket.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats had telegraphed that they would be a \u201cno\u201d vote on the legislation earlier Wednesday for that reason, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).<\/p>\n

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\u201cDemocrats will continue to press the case to say to our Republican colleagues, \u2018You have another opportunity to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,’\u201d Jeffries said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The House Democratic leader added that his caucus was going to \u201cgive the Republicans another opportunity to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits by introducing an amendment that will extend these tax credits for a three-year period of time, the same period of time that these tax credits were extended back in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the subsidies had been enhanced under former President Joe Biden during the COVID-19 pandemic, but are set to expire at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump signed a funding bill Wednesday\u00a0to end\u00a0the longest government shutdown\u00a0in US history, hours after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2065,153,2564,7381,9,11,10,6863,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-38027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-chuck-schumer","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-government-shutdown","11":"tag-mike-johnson","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-obamacare","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}