Today, Federal employees are expected to resume work after President Donald Trump signed a funding package on late Wednesday, reopening the federal government and ending the longest shutdown in history.
The House of Representatives approved the bill with a vote of 222 to 209.
The final decision was reached through an agreement between Republicans and centrist Senate Democrats, which keeps the government operating until January and provides funding for several key agencies through the rest of fiscal year 2026.
The agreement will also reverse the large federal layoffs carried out during the shutdown. It paves the way for paychecks to reach government employees and for the restart of essential food and nutrition services relied on by tens of millions of Americans.
Trump framed the legislation as a win against Democrats, describing it as “a clear message that we will never give in to extortion, because that’s what it was, they tried to extort.”
“They didn’t want to do it the easy way… They had to do it the hard way, and they look very bad,” President Trump stated.
Recovery from the record-setting shutdown will take time, with the White House saying Wednesday that both the Consumer Price Index and jobs report for October are likely to never be compiled and that economic data “will be permanently impaired.”
By CEO NA Editorial Staff
