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Live updates: US House votes on ending government shutdown

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The 328-page bill heading to Trump’s desk extends money for most federal agencies until 30 January.

It provides funding for Snap food aid, as well as the Department of Agriculture, Congress and veterans affairs until September next year.

It guarantees that all federal workers will receive back-pay, and reverses the shutdown-related layoffs of thousands of federal workers.

But the bill also includes a number of new provisions.

It includes language that makes it illegal for federal prosecutors to search senators’ phone records without notice, and allows for payouts of up to $500,000 for each violation.

It is retroactive to 2022, meaning that it will allow several Republican senators to sue after their communications were searched as part of a probe into Trump’s role in the Capitol Hill riot in January 2021.

The bill also reverses the legalisation of cannabis-derived hemp, which passed in 2018 as part of a larger farming bill. Its passage allowed the creation of a multi-billion dollar industry of low dosage THC products in the US, including edibles and drinks.

But the deal does not include what Democrats most-wanted in this shutdown fight: a guaranteed extension of expiring health insurance subsidies that affect around 24 million Americans.

Instead, lawmakers agreed to hold another vote on the issue in December.

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