The House will return to Washington on Wednesday to vote on a bill to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has kept the chamber out of session since Sept. 19 in an attempt to pressure the Senate to agree to a GOP funding extension, which Senate Democrats repeatedly rejected for weeks.
Now House members are making their way back to the Capitol to vote on a new deal brokered among Senate Republicans, seven Senate Democrats and one independent that passed the upper chamber Monday night.
“The long national nightmare is almost coming to an end now, the beginning of the end,” Johnson said on CNN on Monday.
The deal would fund the government through Jan. 30, pass three appropriations bills, reverse more than 4,000 federal layoffs the Trump administration attempted to implement earlier in the shutdown and prevent future layoffs through the end of January. It would appropriate funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, through September 2026.
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