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A successful vote means the long-delayed bill will be handed over to President Trump for signature.
Published November 13, 2025
The House passed a federal spending package, clearing the final hurdle and ending, at least for now, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
In a vote late Wednesday night in the Republican-controlled House, 222 members, including six Democrats, supported the bill, while 209 members, including two Republicans, voted against it.
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The long-delayed bill will now be submitted to President Donald Trump for his signature.
On Monday night, the Senate voted 60-40 to approve a spending package that will fund the U.S. government through Jan. 30 and restore paychecks to hundreds of thousands of federal workers after a grueling six weeks.
The government shutdown halted all but essential government services.
The breakthrough comes after negotiations over the weekend in which seven Democrats and one independent endorsed the latest spending package and agreed to end the government shutdown, which entered its 42nd day on Tuesday.
Importantly, however, the deal does not address one of the most central issues of the shutdown: health benefits for 24 million Americans under the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration had planned to cut.
Democrats have repeatedly blocked passage of the bill for weeks, saying the measure is needed to force the government to address rising health care costs for low-income Americans.
Just before Wednesday’s vote, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Democratic lawmakers who blocked passage of the resolution in September of using them as “leverage” for “political gamesmanship.”
“Since then, Senate Democrats have voted to shut down the government 14 times. Republicans have collectively voted 15 times to open the government for the people, and Democrats have voted to shut down the government the same number of times,” he said.
As part of a deal to break the impasse, Senate Republicans have agreed to hold a vote on the issue by December, raising concerns that another government shutdown could occur in January.
The deal has also sparked anger among Democrats who want to hold out, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who is considered a 2028 presidential candidate and earlier this week called the deal an “empty promise.”
David Smith, an associate professor at the Center for American Studies at the University of Sydney, also said the deal was “just a stopgap arrangement”.
“A deal means large parts of the government will be shut down again in January unless another deal is reached,” he told Al Jazeera earlier this week.
Democratic senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Tim Kaine of Virginia were the Democrats who supported the deal.
Angus King, an independent from Maine, also supported the deal.
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