Trump announces short-term deal to end government shutdown with no wall funding

The 35-day closure, the longest in U.S. history, has furloughed 800,000 federal employees while the president and Democrats battled over the wall.

President Donald Trump announced on Friday a short-term deal to temporarily reopen the government.

The stop-gap agreement with congressional leaders will last three weeks, until Feb. 15, and would allow talks to continue over security on the southern border. The deal includes no money for his border wall.

"In a short while, I will sign a bill to reopen the government for three weeks until Feb. 15," Trump said in the Rose Garden. "I will make sure that all employees receive their back pay very quickly or as soon as possible."

Trump announced the deal 35 days into the longest-ever partial government closure that has left an estimated 800,000 federal employees without pay and created a host of problems.

On Thursday, the president said that if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., were about to reach a reasonable agreement to end the shutdown, he would support it.

The shutdown began just before Christmas and has left approximately 400,000 workers home from work without pay, while another 400,000 were required to be on the job without pay. The workers will receive back pay, under the agreement.

Trump and congressional Democrats have been at a standoff over the president's demand for $5.7 billion to build his wall along the southern border.

Following the November midterms that saw Democrats retake the House of Representatives, the president called for billions to build the border wall he put at the heart of his presidential campaign.