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President Trump tweeted Friday that he signed the budget bill passed overnight by the Senate and early this morning by the House, officially ending the eight-and-a-half hour government shutdown:
Trump followed up with a tweet that the spending increases included in the bill, which garnered bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, were necessary to gain Democratic votes on the bill:
Go deeper: The GOP is the new party of big government.