President Donald Trump intends to designate Peru as a major non-NATO ally, another sign of his outreach to Latin American partners as the administration escalates its campaign against Venezuela and alleged narco-terrorists.

The White House is ordering federal employees back to work Thursday, as the government reopens following a historic shutdown that furloughed about 600,000 federal employees, shuttered offices and froze billions in salaries and payments.

The backlog of work could take federal employees weeks to resolve.

The longest government shutdown in US history has ended, but it could take days — and in some cases a week or more — before normal operations resume.

In this year’s elections, Democrats across the political spectrum built their campaigns around a single word: affordability. It paid off.