The long pause is over. The lights will come back on.
After forty-one days of stillness and strain, President Donald Trump said Monday that he will honor the deal to reopen the government, while his party moves toward a new vision for health care.
“The government will fully reopen very quickly,” he said in the Oval Office.
Asked about a clause requiring him to rehire federal workers dismissed during the shutdown, Trump waved it off.
“I’ll abide by the deal. The deal is very good,” he said.
The agreement gives Democrats what they wanted: a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at year’s end. But Trump’s focus is already elsewhere.
“We want a health care system where we pay the money to the people instead of the insurance companies,” he said. “We’re talking about trillions and trillions of dollars, where the people get the money.”
There may be enough support in the House to preserve the subsidies, though the Senate’s 60-vote rule remains a mountain to climb. Still, Trump’s language suggests he sees something larger at stake — a shift from systems to citizens, from institutions to individuals.
Is this the renewed call to end Obamacare?
The shutdown ends not with exhaustion, but with a kind of clarity: a reminder that every pause in Washington eventually yields another round of motion, and that politics, like government itself, always restarts.
Watch the clip below:
President Trump on if he approves of deal to re-open the government: "I would say so."
Q: "That deal does reverse the mass firings your administration put through during the shutdown…will you abide by that if this passes?"
Trump: "I will be. I'll abide by the deal." pic.twitter.com/ngiBfPNXDq
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 10, 2025
