Government shutdown updates: Trump signs government funding bill
The president attacked Democrats over the shutdown and other issues.
President Donald Trump late Wednesday night signed a funding bill that will end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
The House passed the bill by a 222-209 margin earlier in the evening. The Senate passed the bill on Monday.
The legislation will fund the government through Jan. 30 and provide funding for some government agencies for the remainder of the fiscal year.
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Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies
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
Trump: 'I'll abide by the deal'
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.
Veteran says 'anxiety' of this shutdown feels like combat 'fight or flight'
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
Jeffries supports Schumer amid Democratic anger over deal
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