Welcome to the News Hour. The longest shutdown of a government agency in history has ended with President Trump today signing a House-passed bill to fund most of the Homeland Security Department.

The administration had warned that money to pay thousands of federal security workers would run out after today without new funding.

Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin's back with us here after spending

the day reporting at the Capitol. So Lisa, what finally changed to end this shutdown?

You know, it was a matter of who changed, and that was House Republicans. As we were coming into today,

there was pressure from President Trump and from House Republican leaders themselves on some of their

voters, and suddenly a rainbow appeared on that as it does.

Here's exactly what happened. The Senate had passed weeks ago repeatedly a DHS funding bill.

That bill funds most of DHS except for ICE and Border Patrol. House Republicans wanted more

of a guarantee that ICE would eventually be funded. And that process has now started.

The ICE funding was, in fact, a real issue for the GOP.

But so were internal divisions over how exactly to do this.

And, you know, after all the drama, I want to peel away the curtain a little bit.

And I want to show people the actual vote to fund DHS today.

It was an absurdly easy one.

Listen.

The question is, will the House suspend the rules and recede from the House amendment

to the Senate amendment and concur in the Senate amendment?

All those in favor say aye.

Those opposed say no.

And in opinion of the chair, two-thirds being an affirmative, the rules are suspended.

Very easy. Why did it take months?

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