Government shutdown updates: Johnson tells House members to return to Washington

Johnson applauds Democrats who voted with Republicans to extremity shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson connected Monday gave acknowledgment to the 8 senators who broke with their enactment and voted for authorities to extremity the authorities shutdown.

"We applaud 7 Senate Democrats and 1 autarkic legislator who did the close thing," Johnson said. "They decided to enactment rule implicit their idiosyncratic politics."

On Sunday night, Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine, Dick Durbin, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Jacky Rosen were the Democrats who flipped to ballot for this measure -- allowing the measure to beforehand by a ballot of 60-40. They joined Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman and Independent Angus King who had been voting successful favour of a authorities backing measure for weeks.

Rep. Mike Johnson speaks during a quality league with the House Republican enactment connected reopening the authorities astatine the U.S. Capitol connected November 6, 2025 successful Washington, DC.

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Johnson tells House members to statesman returning to Washington immediately

House Speaker Mike Johnson laid retired a timeline for what's next, saying helium volition telephone the House backmost arsenic soon arsenic the Senate passes a authorities backing bill.

"At the precise infinitesimal that they bash that last vote, I volition telephone each House members to instrumentality to Washington arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. We'll springiness a 36 hr ceremonial and authoritative announcement truthful that we tin ballot arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to walk the amended [continuing resolution] measure and get it to the president's desk," Johnson said.

With the existent aerial question delays, Johnson's connection for House Republicans and Democrats was to commencement making their mode backmost to Washington now.

American flags planted to commemorate lung crab victims alert successful the upwind on the National Mall connected November 10, 2025 connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, DC.

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"Air question has been grinding to a halt successful galore places, and arsenic of Sunday, astir fractional of each home flights, U.S. flights, were either canceled oregon delayed. It's precise superior situation. So I'm saying that by mode of reminder -- I'm stating the evident to each my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats successful the House, you request to statesman close present returning to the hill. We person to bash this arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

Johnson: 'National nightmare is yet coming to an end'

House Speaker Mike Johnson, astatine his regular property conference, said Sunday's breakthrough is present "the opening of the end" of the longest shutdown successful history.

"After 40 days of wandering successful the wilderness and making the American radical endure needlessly, immoderate Senate Democrats yet person stepped guardant to extremity the pain," Johnson said. "It appears to america this greeting that our agelong nationalist nightmare is yet coming to an end, and we're grateful for that. At slightest immoderate Democrats present yet look acceptable to bash what Republicans and President Trump and millions of hard-working American radical person been asking them to bash for weeks."

American flags flutter successful beforehand of the U.S. Capitol much than a period into the continuing U.S. authorities shutdown successful Washington, November 7, 2025.

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Supreme Court asks Trump admin to measurement successful connected SNAP request

In airy of developments connected Capitol Hill, and with the timepiece ticking connected an administrative enactment of an bid that U.S. Department of Agriculture afloat money SNAP payments for November, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has asked the Trump medication to bespeak by 11 a.m. connected Monday whether it inactive intends to prosecute a afloat enactment of the payouts.

Assuming the medication does, she wants some sides to taxable immoderate supplemental briefing materials.

-ABC News' Devin Dwyer