Politics

Published Wed, Nov 12 20255:56 PM ESTUpdated 9 Min Ago

Key Points

  • The House of Representatives is acceptable to ballot to extremity the longest U.S. authorities shutdown successful history.
  • President Donald Trump has said helium would motion the measure to money the authorities done the extremity of January.
  • The last ballot is expected to hap betwixt 7 and 7:30 p.m. ET.

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) walks surrounded by the media, arsenic members of the U.S. House of Representatives returned to Washington aft a 53-day break, for a ballot that could bring the longest U.S. authorities shutdown successful past to a close, connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 12, 2025.

Nathan Howard | Reuters

The House of Representatives headed toward a ballot connected Wednesday nighttime to extremity the longest U.S. government shutdown in history.

The House is expected to ballot connected a short-term backing measure that would pb to the authorities reopening until astatine slightest the extremity of January.

President Donald Trump has said helium would motion the bill.

The last ballot to unafraid transition of the measure is expected to hap betwixt 7 and 7:30 p.m. ET.

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The ballot comes 2 days aft the Senate passed the bill, aft the Republican bulk successful that enclosure reached a woody with 8 members of the Democratic caucus to extremity a stalemate that led to the shutdown connected Oct. 1.

Most Democratic senators refused to ballot for the measure due to the fact that it did not widen enhanced taxation credits for millions of Americans who acquisition wellness security sum connected Affordable Care Act marketplaces.

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