The shutdown being referred to is the 2025 United States federal government shutdown, which lasted 43 days. It began on October 1, 2025, and ended when Congress passed and the President signed funding legislation to reopen the government in November 2025.

Key points:

• Duration: 43 days.

• Start date: October 1, 2025 (CR lapse).

• End date: November 2025, with funding extended into January 2026 in some provisions, and the official reopening followed the signing of a funding bill.

• Context: Longest shutdown in U.S. history, surpassing prior records from 2013, 2018–2019, and 1995–1996.

If you’d like, I can pull exact dates for the signing event and the funding bill, or summarize how the shutdown affected specific agencies and programs.