Government shutdown updates: Trump signs government funding bill

President Donald Trump, taking reporter questions in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, discussed the Senate deal to end the government shutdown: "We have support from enough Democrats and we're going to be opening up our country."

Trump was asked by ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers if he would abide by the Senate deal's language on reversing mass firings the administration implemented during the shutdown.

"I'll abide by the deal. The deal is very good," Trump said.

Leonard Goodson, a veteran of Desert Storm and the war in Afghanistan, told ABC News that the 40-day government shutdown -- in which his furloughed wife and caregiver has gone without pay -- has brought him back to his service in Afghanistan, where he learned "hypervigilance."

Goodson suffers from the cognitive effects of a traumatic brain injury suffered as a combat medic.

The Goodsons, who live in Fairburn, Georgia, have lost their source of income from Leonard's wife, Dr. Precious Goodson, who is a CDC health educator and Elizabeth Dole Caregiver Fellow. After she was furloughed, she faced a "dilemma," she said, choosing to pull funds from her retirement account. She didn't want to take out loans for fear they would be unable to pay them back in the future.

"So you have to kind of move things around, and you have to do without, make sacrifices, and it causes a lot of anxiety, because you just don't know. ... When you don't know what the end date is, then, yes, that causes a lot of anxiety, and in my case, hypervigilance, And that's a bad place to be in, because it puts me back in a fight or flight, you know, just the same situation as if I was deployed, you know, to get through, to be resilient, you know, you just have to take it," he said.

-ABC News' Christopher Boccia

House Democratic Hakeem Jeffries said he has not spoken to the eight Senate Democrats who voted with Republicans to advance the funding bill to reopen the government.

"Well, I don't have much to say about those individuals, and they're going to have to explain themselves to their constituents and to the American people. I certainly believe that Senate Democrats, the overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have waged a valiant fight over the last seven weeks," he argued.

Jeffries said "yes" and "yes" when asked if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer should remain the Democratic leader and if he is effective at his job.

Schumer, despite voting no on the Republican spending bill, has faced calls from Democrats in Congress to step down from Senate leadership over his failure to keep members of his party in line.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott that House Democrats are "deeply skeptical" about the Trump administration signing off on the language included in the Senate funding bill that would reverse shutdown firings for federal workers.

"In this deal, there is language for President Trump and the Trump administration to reverse some of the firings that happened during the shutdown. Do you trust that the Trump administration and the president is going to sign off on that and reverse the people who have been fired?" Scott asked Jeffries at his news conference on Monday.

Jeffries answered, in part: "There's reason to be deeply skeptical of the administration and their motives as it relates to the hard-working federal civil servants and the federal workforce, and we will continue to be deeply skeptical of their intentions. ... So, we'll see what the language looks like. But it doesn't change the core problem here, which is we need to decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis on behalf of working-class Americans, everyday Americans and middle-class Americans."

-ABC News' Lauren Peller