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The 222-to-209 House vote sent the legislation to President Trump's desk, heralding an end to the shutdown after 43 days.
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The House voted mostly along party lines to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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The split of the longtime allies highlights how the changing politics of Virginia and the Democratic Party have scrambled conventional wisdom in surprising ways.
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House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein sent messages to his longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff suggesting that Donald J. Trump knew more about the convicted sex offender's abuse than he had acknowledged. Our reporters are reviewing the larger trove of documents released by Republicans.
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Dale Romans, pitching himself as an independent-minded Democrat in the mold of Joe Manchin, will try to win a seat for the party in the deep-red state.
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They are as divided as the party. Some wanted to continue to fight. Others were worried about jobs or people depending on SNAP food relief.
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For the poorest Americans, the end of the longest shutdown in history has left doubt and anxiety around the benefits known as SNAP.
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The ceremony ended a seven-week standoff with House Speaker Mike Johnson that left Grijalva unable to fully represent Arizona's 7th Congressional District in Washington.
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In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein's victims.
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Extending the government shutdown would not have worked.
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We speak to The American Prospect's David Dayen about what could be the end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, after seven Democratic Senators and one independent struck a deal with Republicans to pass a short-term government funding bill. "Why would you end this?" asks Dayen, echoing many in the Democratic coalition who believe the deal was a poor strategic move for the anti-Trump opposition. Calls are now growing for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down. "Donald Trump and the Republicans were being blamed for all of this chaos…and yet, days later this this group of Democrats with the tacit support of Chuck Schumer decide that they're going to end this and cave."
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The central issue of the government closure remains unresolved, leaving Republicans under political pressure ahead of the midterms.
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As the U.S. federal government shutdown enters its second month, over 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves and their families after SNAP food assistance was cut off over the weekend. "We are headed for a major public health and economic crisis," says child hunger expert Mariana Chilton. She adds that by refusing to disburse SNAP benefits, "the Trump administration is breaking the law."
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"The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement." Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser, is working to stop Trump's anti-democratic agenda.
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