President Donald Trump has signed a bill ending the longest government shutdown in United States history.
It comes hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.
House members made their long-awaited return to the nation's capital this week after nearly eight weeks away.
Republicans used their slight majority to get the bill over the finish line by a vote of 222-209.
Mr Trump's signature on the bill, which cleared the Senate earlier in the week, will bring federal workers idled by the 43-day shutdown back to their jobs starting as early as Thursday.
However, it remains unclear just how quickly full government services and operations will resume.
"We can never let this happen again," Mr Trump said in the Oval
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