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U.S. Government Re-Opens As Partial Shutdown Ends Without Border Wall Funding [VIDEO]

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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