Members of the House of Representatives headed back to Washington on Tuesday, after a 53-day break, braving the congestion at the nation's tangled airports for a vote that could bring the longest U.S.

The six-week government shutdown that came to an end late Wednesday will be another drag on an economy already facing many challenges, though the full impact will take months to measure

Even as the government shutdown nears an end, Thanksgiving travel may still be affected by reduced air traffic controllers and delays.

The House of Representatives will try to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history on Wednesday, with a vote on a stopgap funding package to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.

The federal government appears on track to reopen soon after the longest shutdown in history. The U.S. Senate voted on Nov. 10 to pass a funding measure and send it to the House of Representatives, where it is expected to pass. After that, it will need approval from President Donald Trump.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he's "optimistic" about ending the government shutdown this week, and that the upper chamber would take its 14th vote on a House-passed funding bill on Tuesday.

The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans and forced more than 1 million workers to go unpaid for more than a month.

The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court a federal judge’s order to provide full SNAP benefits for November. The high court agreed.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend to promise American citizens tariff dividend payments. “People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!” the Sunday morning post reads. “We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price.

The government is back open after President Donald Trump signed the federal funding package after it passed in the House.