With the air of a winner o Donald Trumppresident of USAsigned the long-awaited decree ending the longest fiscal paralysis the US has ever experienced, as the so-called shutdown reached 43 days testing the limits of Americans.
“Today we send a clear message that we never give in to blackmail,” US President Donald Trump said emphatically to his Democratic rivals before signing the text, cheered by Republican lawmakers flanking him in the Oval Office.
The White House said in a tweet: “President Trump has signed an executive order OFFICIALLY reopening the government, ending the Democrat shutdown. Let’s get our country back up and running.”
President Trump signs bill to OFFICIALLY reopen the government, ending the Democrat Shutdown.
Let’s get our country WORKING again. pic.twitter.com/QJqX90k9sC
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 13, 2025
Highlighting her triumphant exit from the endless bradefersucceeded against the “extremists of the other party”, who according to him they paralyzed the state apparatus for “purely political reasons”.
“The country has never done better,” the tycoon assured, even though polls show growing dissatisfaction among Americans with the course of the economy.
His services in the White House had already announced before the vote in the House of Representatives that President Trump would sign the text immediately after its approval, to end the “disastrous” 43-day shutdown, which caused a lot of problems in sectors of the American economy.
Earlier yesterday, after it was passed by the Senate on Monday, the House of Representatives approved the bill by a vote of 222 to 209. Only six members of the caucus of the Democrats joined the majority of the presidential faction, while on the other hand two Republicans voted against the text.
The Republican “speaker” – president of the lower house – Mike Johnson expressed satisfaction at the end of the “long national nightmare”. He then hammered the attitude of the democrats who, according to him, caused the deadlock for six weeks.
“They knew this would cause suffering and they did it anyway. The maneuver as a whole was useless, it was unfair, it was inhumane,” he told the semi-circle.
«Obamacare»
After more than 40 years of budget gridlock, a handful of Democratic senators finally laid down their guns on Monday, joining their Republican colleagues in passing legislation that breaks the impasse, extending the ongoing budget through the end of January.
The text, however, is vague as to the extension of subsidies for “Obamacare”, program to boost health insurance and care for lower-income households, to the chagrin of many Democratic voters.
One of the few concessions to the opposition is that the bill provides for the reinstatement of federal civil servants who were laid off since the start of the shutdownon October 1st.
It also earmarks funds for SNAP, the food assistance program, through September, thus preventing the jeopardy of that aid, which benefits more than 42 million Americans, to be frozen in the event of a new fiscal paralysis at the end of January, as it has been for the past 43 days.
Due to upper house rules, eight opposition votes were required for the text to be adopted. The eight members of these Democrats became the target of rhetorical lightning bolts from the faction, which denounced the slippery concessions and false promises of the other side.
Typical was the reaction via X by Gavin Newsom, who criticized the “capitulation” and “betrayal” of American workers.
Other Democrats have questioned why the eight senators backed down just days after big wins for party candidates in key local contests, which they say vindicated their stance in Congress.
.@POTUS: “For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens… Today, we’re sending a clear message that we will NEVER give in to extortion.” pic.twitter.com/kMKncQPsiL
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 13, 2025
“It’s not too late”
The head of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries again last night urged Republicans to keep their promise to hold a vote on Obamacare soon.
“We believe that working-class Americans, middle-class Americans, and ordinary Americans deserve the same level of certainty that Republicans have always offered to their rich, their wealthiest, their deep-pocketed donors,” he hammered in his semi-circle speech.
“It is not too late” to extend the funding, he insisted.
The issue is in heart of the disputes that caused the shutdown. Unless the program’s tax breaks and subsidies are extended, the cost of health insurance will more than double by 2026 for 24 million Americans who rely on Obamacare, according to estimates by KFF, a health insurance think tank.
As of October 1, over a million civil servants have gone unpaid. The payment of allowances and other benefits has faced huge problems, while thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed in recent days due to shortages of air traffic controllers, with many choosing to be absent rather than work without pay.