On this vote, the a's are 222, the nays are 209.

The bill is passed.

The motion is adopted.

For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States

and an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens

and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions.

They wanted to pay them $1.5 trillion, which would have really hurt our healthcare businesses

and our recipients at levels never seen before.

Today we're sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion because that's

what it was. They tried to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country.

In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like we asked Democrats to send us all

along many days ago. This cost the country $1.5 trillion, this little excursion that they took

us on. Republicans never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times for a clean continuation of funding.

There's never been a time when one or the other party ever didn't sign a continuation.

It's just a continuation, not a big deal. It's a continuation and we'll talk later.

Yet the extremists and the other party insisted on creating the longest government

shut down in American history, and they did it purely for political reasons. So with all of that,

I just want to tell you the country has never been in better shape. We went through this

short-term disaster with the Democrats because they thought it would be good politically.

And it's an honor now to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again.

Thank you. It's going to go down.

It went the exact opposite with the biggest increase of any, of health care in any country.

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