Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, the federal government shutdown is over.
The House passed a short-term spending bill and sent the measure to the President last night.
He signed it last night.
President Trump blamed Democrats for the 43-day government shutdown.
We're sending a clear message that we will never give into extortion because that's what it was.
They tried to extort.
The Democrats tried to extort.
I can't change the short term bill funds most of the government through the end of January.
Some programs and agencies get funding through the end of next September.
That includes the federal nutrition program snap.
It also reverses federal government layoffs and provides back pay
for furloughed government employees.
The shutdown has ended without a solution for spiking health insurance premiums.
Democrats had demanded Republicans restore subsidies for the premiums to win their support for the spending bill and end the shutdown.
But that didn't happen.
NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports that means that 24 million people enrolled in affordable care act plans are in a difficult situation.
The enhanced premium subsidies that have kept costs down for enrollees expire at the end of the year.
Without them, costs are going up.
For Amy Jackson of Butler, Missouri, her premium is going from under $300 a month to $1250.
She's not sure congressional lawmakers understand.