Trump signs Bill to end the longest govt. closure ever
INTERNATIONAL – USA
14 NOVEMBER 2025
- President Donald Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, roughly two hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.
- The Republican-controlled chamber passed the package by a vote of 222-209, with Mr. Trump’s support largely keeping his party together in the face of vehement opposition from House Democrats, who are angry that a long stand-off launched by their Senate colleagues failed to secure a deal to extend federal health insurance subsidies.
- Mr. Trump’s signature on the Bill will bring federal workers idled by the 43-day shutdown back to their jobs.
- It would extend funding through January 30, leaving the federal government on a path to keep adding about $1.8 trillion a year to its $38 trillion in debt.
- The vote came eight days after Democrats won several high-profile elections that many in the party thought strengthened their odds of winning an extension of health insurance subsidies, which are due to expire at the end of the year.
- While the deal sets up a December vote on those subsidies in the Senate, Speaker Mike Johnson has made no such promise in the House.
