The longest government shutdown in modern U.S. history came to a close Wednesday night when President Trump signed a bill to fund the government through Jan. 30 — ending a 43-day-long impasse that had imperiled air travel and left thousands without paychecks.

The ordeal began in late September, after the GOP-led House passed a measure that would have kept the government running through Nov. 21. The bill failed to make it out of the Senate, though, as most Democrats pushed for an extension of expiring health insurance tax credits.

Senate Republicans were unable to garner the support they needed until Monday, when a group of Democrats crossed the aisle and voted to reopen the government until late January in exchange for a separate Senate vote on the health insurance credits. The

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