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Maine's four-person Congressional delegation is one of the smallest in the country. Yet their mixed votes on the bill to reopen the government reflect the national divide over the fraught issue.
Here's a timeline of how the longest shutdown in U.S. history played out in Wisconsin, including the back-and-forth over SNAP benefits.
The government shutdown is over. But hundreds of thousands of federal workers are coming back after 43 days to anything but normalcy, employees from across the country told CNN.
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President Trump signs government funding bill, ending shutdown after a record 43-day disruption
House lawmakers are making a long-awaited return to potentially end the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.
The catch is, though, bonuses will only go to a select number of TSA agents who went “above and beyond,” according to Noem’s statement. The Transportation Security Administration employs about 65,000 workers, of which more than 50,000 are transportation security officers.
Maryland will resume issuing 100% of federal SNAP benefits to recipients on Nov. 18, following the end of the government shutdown.
House and Senate Republicans are at odds over a provision in the federal funding bill that would allow senators to sue over Arctic Frost.
About 1.25 million federal workers haven’t been paid since Oct. 1. Roughly 10,000 flights have been cancelled since last week and disruptions will continue, the officials say, even as air traffic controllers return to work. Government contract awards have slowed and many food aid recipients have seen their benefits interrupted.