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President Donald Trump signed legislation to renew government funding, ending the longest-running government shutdown in US history.
Trump signaled Monday that the government will reopen soon as the fallout from the shutdown continues to snowball, including missed paychecks for federal workers and airline delays caused by air traffic controllers. shortage of personnel.
The bill maintains government funding at the same levels through FY 2025 until Jan. 30 to provide additional time to develop longer-term measures under FY 2026 appropriations.
This measure also funds Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) which more than 42 million Americans rely on through September. The program helps low-income and low-income individuals or families purchase groceries using a debit card.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea on October 29, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The measure also reverses layoffs initiated by the Trump administration earlier in October and pays employees for their absences.
The government reopening comes after a more than 40-day funding shutdown amid a stalemate between Senate Republicans and Democrats over a stopgap spending bill that would have funded the government until Nov. 21.
Following a funding cutoff that began Oct. 1, the Senate passed legislation Monday night that would reopen the government by a 60-40 vote. A total of eight Democrats voted for the measure along with their Republican colleagues. The House subsequently passed its version of the measure on Wednesday.
The White House is visible a day after President Donald Trump announced US military strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran on June 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
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The deal came as the effects of the shutdown reached a fever pitch, including travel disruptions at U.S. airports where air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees were required to work and prepared to miss a second paycheck.
As a result, these employees became sick or took second jobs, leading to staff shortages and flight delays.
The confrontation between Republicans and Democrats arose due to disagreements on various issues. health care regulations include in a potential funding measure. Trump and Republicans said Democrats want to provide health care to illegal immigrants and pointed to a provision that would repeal part of Trump's tax and domestic policy bill, known as the “big, beautiful bill,” that limited Medicaid eligibility for non-U.S. citizens.
Sunrise light hits the US Capitol dome on Thursday, January 2, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Democrats rejected that characterization and said they want to permanently extend some Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of 2025.
The stopgap spending bill signed by Trump does not extend these subsidies through the end of the year, but Senate Majority Leader John ThuneR.S.D., agreed to vote in December on legislation that would continue to provide these loans.
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Despite this, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike JohnsonThe Louisiana Republic did not agree to support this agreement in the House of Representatives.
Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
