U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a bill to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, hours after the House of Representatives approved measures to restore food assistance, pay federal employees and restart the nation’s air-traffic control system.

The House, controlled by Republicans, passed the package by a vote of 222–209. Trump’s backing helped keep his party unified despite strong opposition from Democrats, who remain angered that a prolonged standoff initiated by their Senate colleagues failed to secure an extension of federal health insurance subsidies.

The bill, which cleared the Senate earlier in the week, will allow hundreds of thousands of federal workers idled by the 43-day shutdown to begin returning to their jobs as early as Thursday. It remains un

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