Description The lawn of National Mall with US Capitol in the background. The lawn was gated and closed during the US government shutdown of 2013. Date 6 October 2013, 17:15:39 Source Own work Author: Emw (Wikipedia Commons)
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a short term spending bill into law to reopen the federal government despite getting no money for his border wall.
The three-week stopgap measure will reopen previously shuttered departments of the government through February 15, putting an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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Following a second missed paycheck for furloughed federal workers and mounting pressure by both Democrats and a few Republicans within his party, the president ceded the little negotiating ground he had left, bringing the government to a 35-day-standstill without so much as a cent he demanded for a barrier.
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