The House of Representatives will try to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history on Wednesday. It will 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 House moves to end the historic 42-day government shutdown as the Rules Committee prepares to vote on Senate funding bill.

After a 54-day break, the House is expected to vote on the Senate-passed spending deal. Approval would clear it for President Trump’s signature.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson will swear in Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday, Johnson's office said on Tuesday. Grijalva won a special election in September to succeed her late father in Congress,

The House’s absence was a further example of the legislative branch’s voluntary ceding of its powers to the executive during Trump’s presidency, even if the pliant GOP majority has hardly shown much zeal for conducting oversight of the administration.