The House voted to end the record-long government shutdown on Wednesday after rushing back to Washington, DC to vote on the Senate bill. The next stop is President Donald Trump’s desk.

House members came back to the nation’s Capitol for just one day to vote 222 to 209 on Day 43 of the shutdown after members were out on recess for eight weeks as Speaker Mike Johnson refused to call an end to their recess until the Senate voted to reopen the government.

The House voted on the Senate bill after eight Democratic senators caved and gave Republicans the necessary 60 votes to pass the temporary funding bill which will fund the government through the end of January.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday called the shutdown “completely and utterly foolish and pointless” and blamed Democrats

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