President Donald Trump signed the funding bill Wednesday (November 12) night to end the longest government shutdown in American history at 43 days.

“It’s an honor now to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again,” Trump said while flanked by House Republicans, as well as business and union leaders, inside the Oval Office via the New York Post .

The president blamed "extremist" Democrats for the record government shutdown, claiming they attempted to "extort American taxpayers."

“This cost the country $1.5 trillion,” Trump said of the shutdown, which he described as a “little excursion” that Democrats took “purely for political reasons.”

The president then continued to urge Senate Republicans to "terminate" the filibuster, which he claimed would make the shut

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