Government shutdown updates: Trump signs government funding bill

President Donald Trump, in his Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, celebrated Congress moving closer to ending the government shutdown. The Senate passed a government funding deal on Monday night, and it now heads to the House for a vote as early as Wednesday.

Trump thanked military veterans before taking a moment to praise House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

"Congratulations to you and to John and to everybody on a very big victory," Trump said in remarks directed at Johnson. "We're opening up our country. Should have never been closed, should have never been closed."

Sen. John Fetterman, one of the eight Democrats to join Senate Republicans in passing a government funding deal, defended the move as he joined ABC's "The View" on Tuesday.

"When you're confronting mass, mass chaos, you know, I don't think you should respond with more chaos, or fight with more chaos," Fetterman said. "It's like, no, we need to be the party of order and logic."

Fetterman added, "I refuse to weaponize the SNAP benefit for 42 million Americans, you know, that rely on feeding themselves and their family, or making flying in America, you know, less safe, or I refuse not to pay our military and all of the unions attached to all of this and people. So for me, like, it's like, I don't -- I don't agree with that tactic to respond to circumstances that we're confronting on this."

Amid Democrat infighting after the Senate vote, Fetterman said the party has to "have the ability to agree to disagree on some of these core issues right now."

"It's like reasonable Democrats can disagree on certain kinds of core things, but I hope we could all agree that chaos is the wrong response, or the kinds of chaos that our nation has been in after the president's reelection," Fetterman said.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history appears to be nearing its end, after senators suddenly advanced a funding deal over the weekend after 40 days of little progress.

The legislation passed the Senate on Monday, now heads to the House before going to President Donald Trump's desk. In the meantime, pain continues to grow for Americans on everything from food assistance to air travel.

Here's a timeline of major developments from the weekslong impasse.

The House is officially returning to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and will hold its first votes as early as 4:00 p.m. ET to reopen the government, according to a notice from GOP Whip Tom Emmer.

There are several steps House lawmakers will need to take before getting to final passage. Multiple vote series are expected on Wednesday evening.

Emmer tells lawmakers to "stay tuned" for updates on more precise timing for votes.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller