The Shutdown Deal clears the House Key crisis, setting the stage for tonight’s final vote
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Record government shutdown – record shutdown appears to be on track to finally end after 43 days.
The Federal Funding Act, which is aimed at opening the surviving government to a preliminary test vote in the House on Wednesday, is prone to the final deviation in a matter of hours.
That means the Bill could hit President Donald Trump’s desk right there on Wednesday night, potentially ending what has been the longest shutdown in US history.
The White House announced that Trump was signing the bill in an administration policy statement obtained by FOX News Digital.
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Speaker Mike Johnson holds a gallon during the first session of the 119th Congress in the chamber of the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 3, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“The administration urges all members of Congress to support this worthy, good faith effort to finally end the longest shutdown in history,” the statement said.
The Bill advanced through a procedural process known as a legislative vote, where lawmakers decide whether to allow the legislation to be debated before a final vote.
Governance votes generally fall along partisan lines and are not an indication that a bill will be BiPartisan.
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Most House Democrats still oppose the bill, but it’s likely that at least a few moderates will hurt their leaders to support it.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, d.n.y., reiterated reports hours before the vote that he was frustrated the bill did nothing to fund ObamaCare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Those advanced tax credits are set to expire this year.
“House Democrats are here in the Capitol taking steps to repeat our opposition to spending money, because they fail to fix the Republican Healthcare crisis and they fail to extend the available tax credits,” Jeffries said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on November 3, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
House Speaker Mike John Johnson, R-LA., sounded more optimistic in comments to reporters Wednesday morning before the vote.
“I just wanted to go out there and say we believe the country’s long night will be here tonight,” Johnson said. “It was completely stupid and pointless in the end.”
At that time, the effects of the lockdown in the country increased significantly by the day.
Many of the thousands of air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers who were supposed to work without pay have been forced to take second jobs, causing nationwide flight delays and cancellations among the nation’s top workers. Millions of Americans who rely on the federal government have been left in limbo as funding for critical government programs ran close to drying up.
At the heart of the paper was the Democratic leaders’ reluctance to back off any funding that didn’t also extend ObamaCare’s improved funding. Democrats have indicated that it was their best hope to cap health care prices for Americans across the US.
Republicans agreed to hold talks on reforming what they saw as a broken health care system, but refused to pair any funding priorities.
In the end, a compromise led by the senate – which saw eight Democrats in the upper chamber join the bill to pass the rest of the work with a boosted funding extension in December.
President Donald Trump speaks during a breakfast with senators and House Republicans in the white dining room of the White House in Washington on November 5, 2025. (Evan vucci / AP Newsroom)
Johnson makes no such promise to the house, however.
And the lack of assurances to increase those subsidies has angered progressive and democratic leaders.
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“What were the Republicans willing to give up in the end, other than a hand-holding deal to take future votes on health care funding expansion?” Rep statistics. Shomari, D-Ala., said Wednesday. “We all know the next vote is like asking two wolves and a chicken to vote on what’s for dinner.”
The full house will now vote on the legislation at 7 pm.
This bill kicks the current Federal Budget Feating to Jan. 30, where House GOP leaders said they were confident they would finish the job with a long-term deal by fiscal year (FY) 2026.
“There are nine bills left, and we’d like to get them all done in the next few weeks. And then, [House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla.] And his rights will be in effect overtime,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalese, R-LA., told FOX News Digital.
Cole said when asked if they would be done that day, “I think we know.”
