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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed a gov­ern­ment fund­ing bill Wednes­day night, end­ing a record 43-day shut­down that caused fi­nan­cial stress for fed­er­al work­ers who went with­out pay­checks, strand­ed scores of trav­ellers at air­ports and gen­er­at­ed long lines at some food banks.

The shut­down mag­ni­fied par­ti­san di­vi­sions in Wash­ing­ton as Trump took un­prece­dent­ed uni­lat­er­al ac­tions — in­clud­ing can­celling projects and try­ing to fire fed­er­al work­ers — to pres­sure De­moc­rats in­to re­lent­ing on their de­mands.

The Re­pub­li­can pres­i­dent blamed the sit­u­a­tion on De­moc­rats and sug­gest­ed vot­ers shouldn’t re­ward the par­ty dur­ing next year’s midterm elec­tions.