Trump Signs Bill to End Partial Government Shutdown
President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday ending the partial government shutdown, which began Sunday.
Trump signed the consolidated appropriations bill in the Oval Office, surrounded by Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY), among others.
The legislation funds five appropriations bills to end the shutdown and includes a continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security through midnight Friday, February 13.
“I am pleased to sign the Consolidated Appropriations Act to immediately reopen the federal government and fund the vast majority of operations for the remainder of the fiscal year,” Trump said during the signing ceremony, adding:
This bill is a great victory for the American people. Instead of a bloated and unnecessary omnibus monstrosity filled with giveaways aimed at special interests, we managed to pass a fiscally responsible package that actually cuts wasteful federal spending, while supporting programs critical to the safety, security, and prosperity of the American people.
He highlighted many aspects of the bill, including ending taxpayer subsidies for “woke programming” on PBS and NPR, cutting “nearly $10 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending,” continuing to shut down USAID, and creating an “America First Opportunity Fund” to responsibly deliver foreign aid to countries where it truly serves U.S. interests.
Trump noted: “This bill also cuts funding for abusive and weaponized IRS programs…It builds on the Republican recession plan passed last summer, which saved Americans billions and billions of dollars. »
“It fully funds our military, includes a well-deserved pay raise for all U.S. military personnel, and makes historic investments in the U.S. shipbuilding industry, which is great. We’re really starting to do something incredible with shipbuilding,” he added.
It also includes measures to continue the fight against crime in Washington, DC; continue to finance deportation flights; and to designate within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) the Melania Trump Foster Youth to Independence Initiative. Trump’s efforts to restore law and order in the nation’s capital have yielded compelling results, as Breitbart News noted Monday.
