A deal to end the government shutdown is now law after it was passed by the House of Representatives and then quickly signed into law by President Trump to end the 43-day stoppage that is now the longest in US history by over a week.
The vote passed by a tally of 222-209
“We’ll be opening up our country very quickly,” Trump promised earlier in the week as the deal came together.
The bill will give federal workers back pay and keep the government open until January 30. It will also fund certain federal programs, such as the Agriculture and Veterans Affairs departments, for the entire fiscal year, and impose limits on Trump’s ability to fire federal workers, among other provisions.
The Senate struck the deal over the weekend and approved it on Monday evening by a 60-40 vote.
The focus will now turn to the economic effects, with the tally likely to go on for weeks.
An October analysis from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that a six-week shutdown — almost the exact length of this stoppage — would cut in Q4 GDP growth by 1.5 percentage points before the economy quickly rebounds by early next year.
By the end of 2026, the shutdown is estimated to result in the US economy being permanently smaller by approximately $11 billion than it would have been otherwise.
The effect on economic data delays is also likely to linger, with the White House saying Wednesday that both the Consumer Price Index and jobs report for October are likely to never be tabulated and that economic data “will be permanently impaired.”
Headaches at the airport — which saw thousands of flight cancellations each day during the final week of the shutdown — are also likely to take time to return to normal.
Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents will receive full back pay, but a shortage in air traffic controllers is a problem that has plagued airports for years.
One group set for immediate relief is the approximately 42 million Americans who have seen their food benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in legal limbo.
Payments are now set to resume, and these millions of low-income families can expect food security for a bit longer. This week’s deal includes funding for the Agriculture Department, which oversees the SNAP program, until next October.
Here are the latest updates on the impacts of the government shutdown.
LIVE 80 updates
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Both October jobs and inflation data unlikely to ever be released, White House says
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday, hours before the shutdown is likely to end, that economic data delays will likely linger even after the government reopens. She said that both the Consumer Price Index and jobs report for October will likely never be released and that economic data will be “permanently damaged.”
Upcoming releases “will be permanently impaired, leaving our policymakers at the Fed flying blind at a critical period,” she added.
The White House has previously signaled that the inflation report, which was due to be released this Thursday, would likely never be available because “surveyors cannot deploy to the field — depriving us of critical data.”
A White House official had previously told Yahoo Finance that data releases for the month of November also remain unclear. The official said the administration was still looking into the situation, with employees at the Bureau of Labor Statistics remaining furloughed.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters at the White House on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) · ASSOCIATED PRESS -
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Lawmakers face one last big hurdle to end shutdown. Flying to DC
USA Today has laid out some of the creative ways that lawmakers are trying to get back to Washington to avert the shutdown, as they worry about stoppage-induced travel delays.
It reports:
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Supreme Court extends the pause on SNAP benefits
Bloomberg reports:
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The House will consider a stock trading ban once the government reopens
A key lawmaker has announced that the House of Representatives will formally consider a stock trading ban once the government reopens, but it will be done in a way that creates uncertainty about when (or perhaps even if) lawmakers will face an up-or-down vote on the issue.
“Speaker Johnson has notified me that as soon as we return and the government is reopened, the bill to ban insider trading is going to be marked up in committee,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida recently posted.
Luna is part of a group of lawmakers pushing a measure to ban all lawmaker trading and called the move “a big win for America.”
But a committee hearing is a significantly less dramatic step than Luna was threatening months ago.
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It was these Senate Democrats who voted to reopen the government
It was seven Democrats and one independent who caucuses with Democrats who ended up making the difference in getting a bill to end the shutdown through the Senate.
This group voted to reopen the government twice — first on Sunday to advance the legislation and then again for final passage on Monday evening — in return for concessions that other Democrats say aren’t enough.
Three of these lawmakers have been voting with Republicans for weeks now. They were joined over the weekend by five more Democrats when a revised bill was introduced that will keep the government open until Jan. 30 if it is eventually signed into law.
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Democrats trade election euphoria for angst over shutdown deal
A move by eight more centrist Democrats in the Senate to break ranks and secure a deal with Republicans to end the government shutdown is returning the party to its factional disputes that have marked the second term of President Trump, just days after the party secured dominant electoral victories.
Bloomberg reports on the emerging divide:
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Trump tells air traffic controllers to ‘get back to work,’ threatens pay
President Trump on Monday morning weighed in on the ongoing airport delays. He said in a Truth Social Post that he was happy with the air traffic controllers who worked during the shutdown, but had harsh words for those who took time away while they were forgoing paychecks.
“For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU,” the president wrote.
The president said he would recommend a $10,000 bonus for air controllers who stayed on the job, while saying anyone who doesn’t quickly return to work immediately “will be substantially ‘docked.'”
It wasn’t immediately clear how Trump might follow through with his threats, but it was a sharp change in tone from the president’s aides, who have often offered kind words to these workers after they have now gone without paychecks for over a month.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy often noted, for example, that some controllers needed to take time off to do things like drive an Uber in order to support their families.
Trump’s message may also not address the long-term problem of a shortage of air traffic controllers, which is expected to persist long after the shutdown ends, with the president even pushing some to quit.
“If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so, with NO payment or severance of any kind!” he wrote. “You will be quickly replaced by true Patriots, who will do a better job.”
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Airlines cancel more than 2,100 flights on Sunday
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday that air traffic in the US could “slow to a trickle” if the government shutdown extends into the Thanksgiving holiday travel season.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks to reporters during a visit at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on November 07, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) · Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images The FAA ordered a reduction in air traffic capacity effective Friday, and on Sunday the number of canceled flights surpassed 2,000, the Associated Press reported.
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