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UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0President Trump has signed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday in a move that ended\u00a0a partial government shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n It came as the partial shutdown had\u00a0reached a fourth day, as lawmakers in Washington were deadlocked over funding for immigration enforcement. The temporary funding delay had affected\u00a0thousands of federal workers.\u00a0Workers with the Federal Aviation Administration are on furlough, and some 14,000 air traffic controllers had been working without pay.<\/p>\n A message posted on the Department of Health and Human Services website had said, “Due to the government shutdown, information on this website may not be up to date.”\u00a0And as Americans begin filing their taxes, the Internal Revenue Service said it was only able to process returns through this Saturday.<\/p>\n President Trump had expressed optimism that an agreement could be made. “I think they’re pretty close to a resolution,” Trump said Monday. “You know, we were at 5.6% GDP, and we lost a point and a half because of the 42-day shutdown.”<\/p>\n The impasse was centered around ICE operations following the tragic shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents in Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said ICE agents will now be required to wear body cameras. “We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” Noem posted on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n I just spoke with @RealTomHoman<\/a> @ICEDirector<\/a> @CBPCommissioner<\/a>. Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body\u2026<\/p>\n