Rachel Abrams

So it feels really remarkable that after all of this, Democrats are focusing on Jeffrey Epstein.

So what do you make of that?

Michael Gold, thank you so much.

We'll be right back.

Here's what else you need to know today.

The House gave final passage to a spending package to reopen the government, triggering the end to the longest running shutdown in the nation's history.

The vote came on day 43 of the shutdown and days after eight Democratic senators broke their own party's blockade and joined Republicans in allowing the spending measure to move forward.

It was the first time the House had held a vote in nearly two months.

And the American penny died on Wednesday.

It was 232 years old.

The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said.

Nothing could be bought anymore with a penny, not even penny candy, and the cost to mint the penny had risen to more than three cents.

The final pennies were minted on Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia.

Today's episode was produced by Rob Zipko, Alex Stern, and Rochelle Boncha.

It was edited by Paige Cowett and Lexi Diao.

It contains music by Dan Powell and Marian Lozano and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Rachel Abrams.

See you tomorrow.

From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.