Trump signs bill ending record shutdown

The record-long shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) came to an end Thursday after President Trump signed a bill to fund most of the agencies.

The bipartisan agreement comes after months of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, stretching the lapse in funding to 76 days. 

The House approved the funding package by a voice vote earlier Thursday, a month after the Senate advanced the measure.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had pushed back against the Senate bill, which cut out funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol. Those agencies, however, received funding already from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Johnson and other House Republicans had vowed that they would not pass this legislation until a separate funding package for these agencies was approved. However, the GOP leader faced mounting pressure from the White House, the Senate and other lawmakers amid dwindling funding and staffing shortages at the department. 

“It’s about time,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck........

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