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President Donald Trump signed the funding bill Wednesday (November 12) night to end the longest government shutdown in American history at 43 days.
“It’s an honor now to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again,” Trump said while flanked by House Republicans, as well as business and union leaders, inside the Oval Office via the New York Post.
The president blamed "extremist" Democrats for the record government shutdown, claiming they attempted to "extort American taxpayers."
“This cost the country $1.5 trillion,” Trump said of the shutdown, which he described as a “little excursion” that Democrats took “purely for political reasons.”
The president then continued to urge Senate Republicans to "terminate" the filibuster, which he claimed would make the shutdown "never happened again," and called for the "massive amount" of federal funding for Obamacare to be “paid directly to the people of our country, so that they can buy their own healthcare.”
The spending bill, which funds the government through January 30, 2026, while providing money for SNAP benefits, veteran programs and congressional operations through September 30, 2026, passed the House by a 222-209 vote Wednesday night after being approved by the Senate Monday (November 10) night. Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Angus King and Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) all voted alongside 52 Republicans on Monday.