Breaking News : US House passes bill to reopen the US government

 Breaking News : US House passes bill to reopen the US government



A deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history has cleared Congress as the House of Representatives

 voted to restart food assistance, pay federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.

The Republican-controlled chamber passed the package by 222-209, with President Donald Trump's support largely keeping his party together in the face of vehement

 opposition from House Democrats. They are angry that a long standoff launched by their Senate colleagues failed to secure a deal to extend federal health insurance subsidies.

The bill has already passed the Senate and the White House said Trump will sign it into law later on Wednesday, ending the shutdown.

It would extend funding through January 30.

"I feel like I just lived a Seinfeld episode. We just spent 40 days and I still don't know what the plotline was," said Republican

 Representative David Schweikert of Arizona, likening Congress' handling of the shutdown to the misadventures in a popular 1990s U.S. sitcom.

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