President Donald Trump has signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history after the House of Representatives passed a bill to end the funding impasse, Al Jazeera reported.
Trump claimed the reopening of federal government as a “big victory” for Republicans. He told sports network ESPN that only “people that hate our country want to see it not open”.
Wall Street stocks rose as markets anticipated the congressional vote to reopen the government.
Democrats released emails in which convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggested that Trump was aware of the late financier’s abuse and “knew about the girls”. Trump has slammed the emails as a hoax, accusing the Democrats of distracting from the shutdown.