President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown and capping off a struggle in Congress that deeply divided Democrats.

The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce.

Trump waged an attack on media outlets for reporting negatively about him, calling CNN and MSNBC "corrupt" and "illegal".

President Donald Trump launched some of his harshest attacks yet on the media on Friday, using a speech at the Department of Justice to baselessly accuse outlets including CNN of illegal and corrupt behavior.

In my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what they do is illegal,” the president said in remarks at the Justice Department.