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About 1.4 million employees missed their first full paychecks on Oct. 24 after receiving only partial pay on Oct. 10.
Many furloughed workers, who will receive backpay, were already told Wednesday to report to work the following day for the first time in nearly six weeks.
With the vote falling mostly along party lines, the House sent the Senate-approved bill to President Donald Trump’s desk.
President Trump signed a bill to fund government late Wednesday night, ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
House lawmakers have a laundry list of legislative priorities to focus on now that the government shutdown battle is behind them. Because the lower chamber was out of session for over a month, the next few weeks will be critical as lawmakers try to make up time and negotiate an annual defense policy bill,
Congress is moving quickly to pass a funding package that would end the longest federal shutdown in the nation’s history.