The longest federal government shutdown in history is over, but there will be some delays before services are fully restored.

For 43 days, the federal government was shut down, with some 670,000 federal workers furloughed and another 730,000 working without pay according to reports. Late Wednesday, President Trump signed a bill that would fund the federal government at current levels through late January — but fingers continue to point outward from both sides, showing that reopening the federal government has done little to alleviate partisan tensions.

“Today we’re sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion,” Trump said when he signed the funding bill passed by the House earlier that evening after the Senate passed it on Monday. He was referring to Democratic Party d

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