United States President Donald Trump has signed a roughly US$1.2 trillion (A$1.711 trillion) spending package to end the partial U.S. government shutdown, hours after the House of Representatives passed the measure in a bipartisan vote.
The House narrowly approved the bill 217–214 earlier on Tuesday, following Senate passage last week. Much of the federal government had been shuttered since Saturday morning.
The bill allocates funding until 30 September for the departments of Defense, Treasury, State, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education, while providing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with stopgap funding for two weeks.
Lawmakers are set to return to negotiations over potential changes to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as Democrats push for tighter restrictions on its operations.
The House vote drew support from both parties. Ahead of the vote, the lead Democratic negotiator on the spending bills, Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, urged colleagues to back the package.
“Passing these five full-year funding bills today puts us in the best position to win that fight” over DHS funding, DeLauro said. Despite that appeal, many Democrats and some Republicans opposed the legislation.
Earlier in the day, the appropriations package nearly stalled during a procedural vote but advanced narrowly, 217–215.
Speaker Mike Johnson secured near-unanimous Republican support to move the bill forward, despite efforts by some members to attach unrelated priorities.
Trump had called on Republicans to remain united in a Truth Social media post on Monday, telling holdouts, “There can be NO CHANGES at this time.”
All Democrats voted against the procedural motion. Some Republicans had sought to force a Senate vote on a voter identification measure known as the SAVE Act.
Republican leaders moved quickly on the House floor to secure enough support, with one lawmaker switching his vote before remaining holdouts relented, allowing the chamber to proceed to final passage.
