Trump's week in review: Syrian president visits White House, gov't shutdown ends, BBC apologizes
3. Trump signs bill bringing government shutdown to an end, offers $10K bonuses to TSA employees who worked during the shutdown
The government shutdown, which marked the longest of its kind in U.S. history at six weeks in duration, came to an end Wednesday after Trump signed legislation that will fund the federal government through Jan. 30, 2026.
The resolution to the government shutdown followed weeks of tension on Capitol Hill as the Republican-controlled Senate repeatedly failed to pass the spending bill containing funding for the government because of an inability to reach the 60-vote threshold required for passage.
That changed this week when Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and seven Democrats broke from their party to support the spending bill in exchange for amendments rescinding terminations of federal workers that took place during the shutdown, back pay for federal workers and a promise to vote on extending subsidies for Americans seeking to buy healthcare under the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire at the end of the year.
Most Democrats remained consistently opposed to the spending bill because of the absence of the subsidies, which enable Americans whose income exceeds 400% of the federal poverty line to receive tax credits to buy health insurance.
On Thursday, after the shutdown had come to an end, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem gave a press conference at Bush Airport in Houston, Texas, announcing that the administration was giving $10,000 bonuses to employees of the Transportation Security Administration who continued to work without pay during the shutdown.
Noem presented checks to several TSA workers at Bush Airport who went “above and beyond” during the shutdown. She added that the administration will “continue to evaluate every single employee that helped during the shutdown and stepped up and went above and beyond.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
