Overview
- Lawmakers sent the bill to the White House after House passage 222–209 and a 60–40 Senate vote, and President Trump signed it late Wednesday to reopen the government.
- The package provides full-year funding for three appropriations bills, including SNAP through September, and extends the rest of government funding only until late January.
- The measure guarantees back pay, reverses recent federal worker firings, and bars additional layoffs through January, with about 670,000 furloughed employees returning to work.
- Agencies warn services will take days to recover; the FAA is maintaining a 6% flight reduction at 40 major airports and expects roughly a week before lifting restrictions as controllers return.
- Democrats’ push to extend enhanced ACA premium tax credits remains unresolved, with a mid-December Senate vote promised and an uncertain House path, as Trump presses to scrap the filibuster and repeats a flight-cancellation claim disputed by Associated Press analysis.