President Trump signs bill to reopen government

President Donald Trump, taking reporter questions in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, discussed the Senate deal to end the government shutdown: "We have support from enough Democrats and we're going to be opening up our country."

Trump was asked by ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers if he would abide by the Senate deal's language on reversing mass firings the administration implemented during the shutdown.

"I'll abide by the deal. The deal is very good," Trump said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued on Monday that Republicans are now to blame for rising health care costs after Affordable Care Act subsidies were not included in the bipartisan deal to reopen the government.

"The American people have now awoken to Trump's health care crisis. Health care is once again at the forefront of people's minds. People now see that premiums are about to skyrocket. They're terrified about how they're going to pay for their insurance," Schumer said on the Senate floor. "Democrats demanded that we find a way to fix this crisis and quickly, but Republicans have refused to move an inch. So, I cannot support the Republican bill that's on the floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America's health care crisis."

"Doing nothing is unacceptable, but that's the choice the Republican side made in obeisance to Donald Trump," Schumer added. "Republicans now own this health care crisis. They knew it was coming. We wanted to fix it. Republicans said no, and now it's on them."

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow

Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that House lawmakers should start returning to Washington "right now" after a small group of Senate Democrats broke a 40-day stalemate late Sunday evening and voted with Republicans to move forward with legislation that would end the government shutdown.

It is unclear when the Senate will hold final votes on the legislation. But Johnson said the "nightmare is finally coming to an end" after the Senate voted 60-40 to consider a compromise bill to fund the government.

"We have to do this as quickly as possible," Johnson said at a news conference Monday morning. He has kept the House out of session since mid-September, when the House passed a bill to continue government funding.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, in floor remarks on Monday, pushed for the deal to end the shutdown to be passed as quickly as possible, as questions remain on timing.

"I said that we will be voting on the final package in the very near future, and I'm hoping that will be hours and not days," Thune said.

It takes unanimous approval of all 100 senators to speed ahead toward a final vote. If there is an objection from even one senator, it would be enough to slow the process down.

"I'm grateful that the end is in sight, but I would encourage every member of this body, Democrat or Republican, pro-bill or anti-bill, not to stand in the way of being able to deliver the coming relief quickly. The American people have suffered for long enough," Thune said.