BREAKING: File-Lengthy Authorities Shutdown Formally Comes To A Shut

President Donald Trump signed legislation late Wednesday evening to reopen the federal government after a historic 43-day shutdown, ending the nation’s longest such lapse in modern U.S. history.

The bill, approved by the House of Representatives in a 222-209 vote after the Senate’s earlier passage, provides funding for most federal agencies through Jan. 30, 2026, and extends full-year appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs, and the legislative branch.

It also restores pay and back pay to more than one million federal employees who were either furloughed or forced to work without pay during the shutdown. Some 650,000 of those workers are expected to return to work as early as Thursday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a key architect of the funding package, called the measure “a clean resolution that reopens government and restores services,” while Senate Democrats criticized the bill for failing to extend key health-insurance subsidies tied to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

White House press officials said that agency operations would resume immediately after Trump signed the bill.

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