Trump signs deal to end longest US government shutdown in history

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Trump signs deal to end longest US government shutdown in history  US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history, roughly two hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.  The Republican-controlled chamber passed the package by a vote of 222-209, with Trump's support largely keeping his party together in the face of vehement opposition from House Democrats, who are angry that a long standoff launched by their Senate colleagues failed to secure a deal to extend federal health insurance subsidies.  Trump's signature on the bill, which cleared the Senate earlier in the week, will bring federal workers idled by the 43-day shutdown back to their jobs starting as early as Thursday (November 13), although just how quickly full government services and operations will resume is unclear.  UNRESTRICTED POOL / REUTERS  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net  Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  Soundcloud: https://tmt.ph/soundcloud   #themanilatimes #tmtnews #worldnews

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00:00For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States

00:05in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal

00:10aliens and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental

00:17institutions. They wanted to pay them $1.5 trillion, which would have really hurt our

00:23health care businesses and our recipients at levels never seen before. Today, we're sending

00:31a clear message that we will never give in to extortion because that's what it was. This

00:35cost the country $1.5 trillion, this little excursion that they took us on. Republicans

00:42never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times for a clean continuation of funding. There's never been

00:49a time when one or the other party ever didn't sign a continuation, just a continuation, not

00:58a big deal. It's a continuation and we'll talk later. Over the past seven weeks, the Democrats

01:02shut down has inflicted massive harm. They caused 20,000 flights to be canceled or delayed. They

01:10departed so many times, so late. People were hurt so badly. Nobody's ever seen anything like

01:18this one. This was a no-brainer. This was an easy extension. But they didn't want to do it the easy

01:24way. They had to do it the hard way. And they look very bad, the Democrats do. They deprived more than

01:29one million government workers from their paychecks and cut off food stamp benefits for millions and

01:34millions more Americans in need. They caused tens of thousands of federal contractors and small

01:41businesses to go unpaid. And the total effect of the damage their antics caused will take weeks and

01:48probably months to really calculate accurately, including the serious harm that they did to our

01:53economy and to people and to families. So with my signature, the federal government will now resume

02:00normal operations. And my administration and our partners in Congress will continue our work to

02:06lower the cost of living, restore public safety, grow our economy and make America affordable again.

02:13And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be paid, but for the money, this massive amount

02:19of money to be paid directly to the people of our country so that they can buy their own health care,

02:25which will be far better and far less expensive than the disaster known as Obamacare. And I've had,

02:32I think, great support. I've even had Democrat support. And it's an honor now to sign this

02:38incredible bill and get our country working again. Thank you very much.

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