Government shutdown updates: Trump signs government funding bill

House Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a private conference call Monday that he’s expecting the lower chamber to hold a vote on government funding as early as Wednesday, according to multiple sources.

A formal vote schedule in the House has not been noticed as the bill is still being processed in the Senate. Once it clears the Senate, it will head to the House, where several steps will need to be taken before a final vote can be held. The bill must go through the Rules Committee before it can hit the floor for a procedural vote and debate.

During an interview on CNN Monday afternoon, Johnson said “I believe they will” when asked if all Republicans in the House will vote for the Senate funding bill.

“We’ve got to get everybody back,” he said. Johnson said he told members to start traveling back to D.C. earlier today. Attendance is a key issue to watch.

The House has been out of session since Sept. 19 — 52 days ago.

-ABC News’ Lauren Peller

Speaker Mike Johnson, walking back to his office, again would not commit to holding a vote in the House on the Affordable Care Act subsidies -- something Senate GOP leaders agreed to do as part of a deal they cut with Democrats to reopen the government.

Johnson said there will be a "deliberative process" in the lower chamber to "find consensus" among lawmakers.

"I do not guarantee the outcome of legislation or dates or deadlines or anything," he said.

Last week at a news conference, Johnson echoed a similar sentiment -- saying he would not make any promises on holding an ACA subsidies vote.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller and Jay O'Brien

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