House passes spending bill to end the longest U.S. government shutdown in history

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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the stopgap spending bill [https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20305438-house-passes-bill-to-end-nations-longest-government-shutdown-on-day-43-sending-measure-to]that will end the longest U.S. government shutdown in history. That sends the legislation to President Donald Trump for him to sign on the 43rd day since the government suspended large swaths of its operations.

The members of the House voted 222-209 to pass the interim funding measure, with most Democrats voting against it because it didn't contain an extension of Affordable Care Act premium subsidies. President Trump will sign the bill at 9:45 PM ET, according to the official White House schedule.

The legislation includes full-year appropriations for the departments of Agriculture, including the food assistance program known as SNAP, and Veterans Affairs, and for Congress itself. It will fund the rest of the government though Jan. 30. It also includes back pay for federal workers. The package also includes provisions for a bipartisan budget process and prevents the White House from using continuing resolutions to fund the government.

After the vote [https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5371], Nasdaq futures crept up into the green, rising 0.2%; S&P futures and the Dow futures each edged up 0.1%. The U.S. Dollar (DXY [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DXY]) Index also rose 0.1%.

On Monday, eight Democratic senators broke with party leadership to end the stalemate, [https://seekingalpha.com/news/4519793-us-senate-passes-bill-to-end-longest-ever-government-shutdown-sending-it-to-house] even without the ACA subsidy extension, to pass the legislation in that chamber. Instead, Republican leadership assured them there would be a vote on the health care subsidies in mid-December.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), though, has made no such assurances.

Once the government resumes operations, it may be awhile before its data-gathering processes gear up. And some of the October and November data may never be completely collected.

Bloomberg News estimated [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-12/shutdown-s-end-kicks-off-long-process-of-rebooting-us-government?srnd=homepage-americas] that it could take until Friday or even Monday for agencies to reopen, depending on how fast lawmakers move.

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