thousands of workers unpaid while

Congress on Wednesday ended the longest government shutdown in US history — 43 days that paralysed Washington and left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid while Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats played a high-stakes blame game. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to approve a Senate-passed package that will reopen federal…

Congress on Wednesday ended the longest government shutdown in US history — 43 days that paralysed Washington and left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid while Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats played a high-stakes blame game. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to approve a Senate-passed package that will reopen federal…