U.S. President Donald Trump watches the swearing-in ceremony of U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gore in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 10, 2025.
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President Donald Trump said Monday he would approve a pending deal in the Senate to end the record U.S. government shutdown.
“Based on everything I’m hearing,” Trump said in the Oval Office, “I would say yes” about the deal, which cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Sunday night.
The bill to fund the government and end the shutdown is now in its 41st day and must be signed by Trump to take effect.
Trump’s remarks included a warning that he would support the deal “if that’s the deal I hear about.”
He also said, “They want to change the contract a little bit,” but continued, “They haven’t changed anything.”
“We have support from enough Democrats and we are going to open up the country very quickly,” he added.
The breakthrough in the Senate late Sunday came after weeks of failures between a Republican-backed bill that would temporarily restart government funding at current levels and Democratic alternatives that included health care protections and other measures.
Democrats specifically called for a permanent extension of enhanced tax credits under the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire at the end of the year.
The deal that broke the deadlock does not include guarantees on Obamacare tax credits, but it does include assurances from Republican Senate leaders that the House will vote on the Democratic health care bill by mid-December.
Eight Democrats joined all but one Republican in voting to advance the deal, reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome the filibuster.
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