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Trump climbs down in wall row, Congress passes bill ending shutdown

While Donald Trump had said that he would not "cave" in the standoff over border wall funding, he was left with little alternative. [AFP]

President Donald Trump on Friday brought a temporary end to the longest government shutdown in US history, while dropping his previous insistence on immediate funding for wall construction along the Mexican border.

The announcement in the White House Rose Garden on the bipartisan deal marked a retreat by Trump, suspending a row that paralyzed Washington, disrupted air travel, and left more than 800,000 federal employees without pay for five weeks.

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