The government shutdown ends — for now

President Donald Trump is calling off the government shutdown at least in the short term. He says he’s signing a bill that will end the shutdown through February 15th. After that though, all bets are off.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the partial government shutdown (all times local):
President Donald Trump says he’ll sign legislation shortly to reopen shuttered government departments for three weeks — until Feb. 15.

Trump’s action would end what has become a record, 35-day partial shutdown.
Some 800,000 federal workers have had to work without pay or have been kept from doing their jobs as Trump and congressional Democrats were locked in a stalemate over the billions of dollars that Trump has demanded to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Trump spoke at the White House on Friday as intensifying delays at some of the nation’s busiest airports and widespread disruptions brought new urgency to efforts to break the impasse.