US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, speaks during a news conference on day 41 of the federal government shutdown, at the US Capitol on November 10, 2025, in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n
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House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> on Monday called for House members to begin traveling to Washington, D.C., so that they can vote as soon as possible on a Senate deal<\/a> that would end the longest U.S. government shutdown<\/a> in history.<\/p>\n Johnson, R-La., spoke to reporters a day after the Senate narrowly approved the first stage of the deal to reopen the government, which shut down on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n To end the shutdown, the House needs to pass any deal that survives Senate votes. President Donald Trump<\/a> would then have to sign it into law.<\/p>\n Johnson indicated to reporters that he expected votes in the House to occur this week, but he did not state a specific day.<\/p>\n The speaker said he would issue an official 36-hour notice before the House votes.<\/p>\n Johnson said, “There’ll be long days and long nights here for the foreseeable future to make up for all this lost time that was imposed upon us.”<\/p>\n Johnson has kept the House out of session since it passed a continuing resolution in September to fund the government through mid-November.<\/p>\n The Senate deal, forged over the weekend, drew support from seven Democrats and one independent who caucuses with Democrats, which, combined with 52 Republican senators’ votes, was enough to reach a 60-vote threshold to pass.<\/p>\n The deal does not include what had been the key demand for Democrats<\/a>: an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act<\/a> tax credits, which are due to expire at the end of December.<\/p>\n But the agreement, for the first time since the shutdown began, includes a guarantee by Republicans of a vote in December on a bill chosen by Democrats to extend those subsidies, which more than 20 million Americans use to reduce the cost of health insurance plans purchased on ACA<\/a> marketplaces.<\/p>\n Read more CNBC government shutdown coverage<\/p>\n The Senate deal would fund the government through the end of January; reverse all shutdown-related layoffs of federal employees; guarantee that all federal workers will be paid their normal salaries during the shutdown; and include provisions for a bipartisan budget process and preventing the White House from using continuing resolutions to fund the government.<\/p>\n It would also fund, through September, the SNAP program<\/a>, which helps feed 42 million Americans through food stamps<\/a>.<\/p>\n Under a federal law passed in 2019, government employees who are furloughed during a shutdown must be paid for the time they were out of work at their standard rate of pay “at the earliest date possible, regardless of scheduled pay dates.”<\/p>\n This is developing news. Check back for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, speaks during a news conference on day 41…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":369639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,81,17628,77,69,51,50,80,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-369638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-breaking-news-politics","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-corruption","11":"tag-donald-j-trump","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115526582248763880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}