The end of the longest government shutdown in the United States

According to RCO News Agency, US President Donald Trump officially ended the longest government shutdown in US history by signing the government’s budget plan. A holiday that lasted 43 days.

According to The Hill, Trump signed the plan in the Oval Office of the White House; where he held the Democrats responsible for the government shutdown in the presence of Republican lawmakers and other party officials.

“Today we are sending a clear message that we will never give in to blackmail, because that is exactly what it is,” he said.

At the signing ceremony, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and President of the Republican Conference Isa McClain were present with Trump.

Earlier in the week, the US Senate approved a bill by a vote of 60 to 40 that would provide funding for several agencies until September 30 and extend the funding for other government departments until January 30. In this vote, eight Democrats joined with 52 Republicans to achieve a quorum of 60 votes to send the bill to the House of Representatives.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved this bill with 222 votes in favor against 209 against in its first vote in nearly two months. In this vote, 6 Democrats joined the almost complete crowd of Republicans, and only two Republicans voted against.

The bill reverses the massive layoffs of federal government workers that the White House pursued during the shutdown and includes measures to prevent new layoffs until early next year.

However, the budget bill does not include an extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are set to expire in January and would cause a sharp increase in health insurance premiums.

Democrats have insisted for weeks that they would support the budget deal only if the extensions were included.

During the shutdown, the White House laid off thousands of government employees, reduced flight capacity at major airports to strain air traffic controllers, and defied a court order to pay food aid recipients.

“The effects of this shutdown will take weeks and possibly months to be properly calculated,” Trump said Wednesday.

He also expressed the hope that this shutdown could end in favor of the Republicans in next year’s mid-term elections; According to polls, the opposite happened and the American people blame Trump and the Republicans.

“I just want to say to the American people, don’t forget that when we get to the midterms and things like that,” he added. Don’t forget what they did to our country.”

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