WASHINGTON ‒ The federal government is back open after a record-breaking 43-day shutdown ‒ but the effects from the nation's longest-ever shutdown could linger.

President Donald Trump late Wednesday night signed a bill to fund the government through Jan. 30 shortly after the legislation cleared the House of Representatives by a 222-209 vote.

Shuttered preschool and food benefit programs will reopen. So will federal agencies and national parks and other landmarks . Furloughed federal workers will return work. Government data crucial to understanding the American economy will start circulating again.

Yet even with the president's signature, delayed and canceled flights are expected to persist this week, federal workers still need their backpay and millions of Americans

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