WASHINGTON — A deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history cleared Congress today, after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.

The Republican-controlled chamber passed the package by a vote of 222-209, with President Donald Trump’s support largely keeping his party together in the face of vehement opposition from House Democrats, who are angry that a long standoff launched by their Senate colleagues failed to secure a deal to extend federal health insurance subsidies.

(Hawaii Reps. Ed Case and Jill Tokuda voted against the measure. Tokuda said in a written statement after the vote, “Today’s vote to end the shutdown is NOT a victory. It may reope

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