WASHINGTON – Congress looked set Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in US history — 43 days that paralyzed Washington and left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid while Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats played a high-stakes blame game. The House of Representatives was expected to rubber-stamp a contentious Senate-passed funding package that will reopen federal agencies, as many Democrats fume over what they see as a capitulation by party leaders. “We believe the long national nightmare will be over tonight. It was completely and utterly foolish and pointless in the end, as we said all along,” House Speaker […]... Keep on reading: Record-breaking US shutdown to end as political fallout begins