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Temporal relief as Trump, Congress agree to end 35-day US govt shutdown
Temporal relief has come the way of over 800,000 federal workers as US President Donald Trump and Congress reached a deal to reopen the roughly one-quarter of the government that had been closed.
The deal ends a 35-day shutdown as lawmakers gear up for more talks to avoid another standoff before funding runs out again in three weeks.
Read also: US Senate hands Trump rare double rebuke over war in Yemen, murder of Khashoggi
“Government is open again, but we cannot forget what shutdowns mean: unnecessary anguish for millions of Americans,” said U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean in a tweet. She is one of the dozens of new Democrats who took office this month as her party took control of the House of Representatives.
However, the deal to end the shutdown which spread across the country does not include the $5.7 billion (4.3 billion pounds) Trump had demanded to build his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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