Trump signs bill funding government through Feb 8, ending 69-hour shutdown

The White House says US President Donald Trump has signed a bill reopening the government, ending a 69-hour display of partisan dysfunction after Democrats voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations.

The shutdown took effect Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the president's inauguration, but the White House maintains that Trump came out the winner in the GOP's standoff with Democrats.

The White House argues Democrats "caved" after Trump refused to negotiate with them on immigration policy until the government reopened. Democrats had been holding out for a firmer commitment to provide protections for some 700,000 younger immigrants brought illegally to the US as children.

AP