00:00Welcome back. The United States has ended its longest government shutdown in history
00:05after President Donald Trump signed a funding bill to reopen federal agencies
00:10following 43 days of closure.
00:13The House approved the measure Wednesday night,
00:15restoring pay for hundreds of thousands of federal workers
00:18and restarting key services, including food aid and air traffic operations.
00:24The bill only funds the government through January 30th,
00:30leaving Congress with another deadline to avoid a new shutdown.
00:33Democrats had hoped to use the impasse to extend federal health insurance subsidies
00:37for 24 million Americans, but the deal makes no such provision.
00:42The end of the shutdown allows air travel operations to recover
00:46and restarts food assistance for millions.
00:48But some economic damage may be lasting longer.
00:51Critical labor and inflation reports for October may be lost,
00:54and economists say the shutdown shaved more than a tenth of a percentage point of weekly GDP.
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