US Government Shutdown 2025 Live Updates: Trump signs funding bill to end America’s longest running government shutdown

It’s unclear whether the parties will find any common ground on health care before the December vote in the Senate. Johnson has said he will not commit to bringing it up in his chamber.

Some Republicans have said they are open to extending the COVID-19 pandemic-era tax credits as premiums will soar for millions of people, but they also want new limits on who can receive the subsidies. Some argue that the tax dollars for the plans should be routed through individuals rather than go directly to insurance companies.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Monday that she was supportive of extending the tax credits with changes, such as new income caps. Some Democrats have signaled they could be open to that idea.

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US President Donald Trump, while signing the stopgap funding bill on Wednesday night at the Oval Office, said that he is open to work with Democrat leaders on health care.

"I’m always willing to work with anyone, including the other party. We’ll work on something having to do with health care. We can do a lot better," Trump said.

President Donald Trump signed the funding bill to end the longest running government shutdown in US history amid applause by the representatives in the Oval Office.

"It's an honor now to sign this incredible bill, and get our country working again," Trump said.

The House of Representatives passed the stopgap funding bill to end the stalemate surrounding the government shutdown with a 222-209 votes in favour of the bill.

The legislation included buy-in from eight senators who broke ranks with the Democrats after reaching the conclusion that Republicans would not bend on using a government funding to bill to extend the health care tax credits. Meanwhile, the shutdown's toll was growing by the day and has reached 43 days on Wednesday.

The compromise funds three annual spending bills and extends the rest of government funding through January 30. Republicans promised to hold a vote by mid-December to extend the health care subsidies, but there is no guarantee of success.

The US House of Representatives has finally ended the government stalemate and passed the stopgap funding bill that has paved way to reopen the federal government after 43 days of record shutdown.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has been allowed to speak on the house of the floor as long as he wants, which is a part of the parliamentary procedure known as "Magic Minute".

Once Jeffries finishes his speech, the final voting on the stopgap funding bill is poised to begin that could end the longest running government shutdown in US history.

House Democrats remain adamantly opposed, angered by the Senate deal that came less than a week after Democrats won high-profile elections in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City that many thought strengthened their odds of winning an extension of health insurance subsidies.

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.

The Congress members have begun their debate ahead of the final vote on the stopgap funding bill, and each side is expected to debate for half an hour.

The House members just now voted on the rules of the debate, which has determined that he Congress members would have a discussion for an hour. Democrats and Republicans both are poised to get 30 minutes each.

The US government shutdown, that has lasted for 43 days and counting, is expected to end as the House of Representatives gets set to vote to pass the government's stopgap funding bill. The shutdown has had a severe impact with thousands of flight delays and cancellation, affecting millions of passengers to thousands of federal employees being laid off, furloughed and not paid.

As the government reopen, the air traffic woes is set to normalise, however, it would take time for the airlines to operate with full measure as hundreds of air traffic controllers have stopped showing up to work due to unpaid dues. The Federal Aviation Administration has said that it would take time for the airlines to normalise the shortages as government reopens.

The recent voting in the procedural vote will help in determining the final tally required for the GOP backed funding bill to pass the House of Representatives today.

There were four absentees reported, three from the Republicans and one from the Democrat. Ideally, the margin would have been 219-214 in favour of the Republicans.

But due to the absentees, the margin has reduced to 216 Republicans and out of which 213 would be casting ballots which means a total of 429 representatives present tonight in the lower chamber of the Congress. And 215 votes are required to pass the resolution.

Local US media is reporting that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is set to deploy "magic minute" this evening in the House of Representatives which is a parliamentary tool, also called "leadership minute".

The "magic minute" is a tool, if applied, would allow the party leaders to speak on the floor as long as they would like to. However, other Congress members have a time limit which is strictly followed.