RIGHT NOW enough authoritarian neo-nazi gop / guardians of political repression-republicans are supportive of, and so complicit in, the crimes of ice, hsi and cpb agents against the residents of America that the house is not able to pass the government funding legislation passed by the senate and endorsed by NOT MY pres drumpf / trump. It seems the nation will have to endure another federal government shutdown as long as these fascist legislators are committed to allowing dhs to continue violations of people's civil liberties, human rights and violations of the US Constitution. From the New York Times.....
Trump Administration Live Updates: Hard-Line Republicans Object to Deal to End Shutdown
Trump and Johnson Push House to Pass Spending Bill
The U.S. government partially shut down over the weekend, as part of a continuing clash over the Trump administration’s immigration policies after federal agents killed two American citizens in Minnesota.
The Senate on Friday passed legislation to fund much of the government and keep the Department of Homeland Security running for two weeks while Republicans negotiated with Democrats on new limits they were demanding on federal immigration agents.
But the agreement did not come together in time to avert a lapse in funding on Saturday morning, and its fate was uncertain in the House, which still must clear the measure and send it to President Trump’s desk to fully reopen the government.
House Republican leaders, who have a minuscule majority and many rank-and-file members opposed to the deal, do not plan to bring it up before Tuesday. Still, Mr. Trump has endorsed the agreement, putting pressure on his own party to embrace it.
The current shutdown is much more limited in scope than last year’s 43-day closure, when hundreds of thousands of federal employees were furloughed and many others worked without pay.
Here’s what to know about the partial shutdown:
Why have parts of the government shut down?
The previous government shutdown ended in November with a measure to fund the federal government at the same spending levels through Jan. 30. In the meantime, members of Congress negotiated and began passing the spending bills for the remainder of the 2026 fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30.
Then came the unrest in Minnesota, where the Trump administration launched a wide-ranging immigration crackdown led by the Department of Homeland Security. In January, federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — in Minneapolis, prompting public outrage. An agent opened fired on Ms. Good as she was behind the wheel of her car, and Mr. Pretti was killed after being pinned down by agents and disarmed of a weapon he was legally carrying.
In response, Democrats in Congress blocked the broader spending package — which included $64.4 billion for D.H.S. — saying they would not hand any more funding to the department without substantial reforms.
They demanded that the homeland security funding be removed from the rest of the deal while they worked out a separate compromise with Mr. Trump and Republicans for restrictions on the administration's immigration crackdown.
By Friday, a deal had been reached. The Senate passed a bipartisan spending package to fund most of the government and keep D.H.S. running for two weeks while Democrats and Mr. Trump continue to negotiate.
But the House could not pass the compromise deal before a lapse in federal funding that started on Saturday morning.
Which departments are affected?
This shutdown — even if it lasts longer than Tuesday — will be less sweeping in its impact than the last one, which led to the mass furloughing of government employees and ensnared funding for welfare programs.
This time, lawmakers have agreed on much of the funding for next year, meaning that fewer departments will be affected. Funds for some key benefits like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — widely known as food stamps — have already been appropriated.
But the package that has been held up funds a broad swath of the government. The Department of Homeland Security includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Transportation Security Administration. Also on hold is $838.7 billion in military spending, as well as money for the departments of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Transportation and State.
When will the partial shutdown end?
Speaker Mike Johnson told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he was confident the House would pass the spending package “at least by Tuesday.” Republican leaders issued a schedule on Monday morning that indicated the package would not receive a vote before then, and left the precise timing uncertain.
The House Rules Committee was expected to meet on Monday afternoon to tee up the vote.
Mr. Trump has appeared eager to avoid another lengthy shutdown and instructed Republicans to back the deal. But it is fragile and could still fall apart. Many in his party are livid at the notion of making concessions to Democrats on immigration enforcement, and unhappy with the broader spending package, the product of bipartisan negotiations that rejects many of the deepest cuts that the G.O.P. wanted.
At the same time, many House Democrats do not want to vote for a package that includes any homeland security money — even one that keeps spending flat for two weeks and holds out the possibility of new restrictions on ICE tactics.
Could another shutdown be ahead?
Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, said in an interview with The New York Times that Mr. Trump called him last week to negotiate a way forward to avoid yet another government shutdown.
“He says, ‘Chuck, I hate shutdowns. I don’t like shutdowns. We’ve got to stop them,’” Mr. Schumer said as he recalled his conversation with Mr. Trump. “And I said, ‘Well, Mr. President, the thing you have to do is rein in ICE.’”
If the legislation passes as expected, it will fund the bulk of the government through Sept. 30. But the Department of Homeland Security will have just two weeks of funding, lasting until Feb. 13. Democrats are demanding guardrails on its immigration operations — including unmasking federal agents, ending indiscriminate sweeps and requiring warrants for stops and arrests — in exchange for funding it for the rest of the year.
Negotiations over those limits promise to be thorny. Many Republicans are vehemently opposed to reining in ICE. If no deal can be reached and Democrats stick to their demands, the Department of Homeland Security could shut down starting on Feb. 14.
Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, urged House members to vote against the spending package that would fund most of the government and keep the Department of Homeland Security funded through Feb. 13.
In a letter to his colleagues, Thompson said that Democrats “must act now to demand real changes” before giving more funds to ICE and Customs and Border Protection. The spending package, passed by the Senate last week after a bipartisan agreement, was intended to give lawmakers more time to negotiate reforms to ICE.
The January jobs report will be delayed because of the partial shutdown.
Another government shutdown, another delay in key economic data.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release monthly jobs numbers on Friday as scheduled because of the partial government shutdown, said Emily Liddel, an associate commissioner for the bureau. The report, one of the most closely watched economic indicators each month, would have provided data on job growth, unemployment and wages in January, as well as annual revisions to employment estimates from 2024 and 2025.
The report “will be rescheduled upon the resumption of government funding,” Ms. Liddel said. A report on job openings and turnover in December, scheduled for release on Tuesday, will also be delayed.
The bureau suspended operations over the weekend when funding lapsed for parts of the federal government including its parent agency, the Labor Department.
Republican leaders in Congress have expressed confidence that the shutdown will end quickly, perhaps as early as Tuesday. But that would still leave little time for agency employees to finish processing and checking the job data in time for the scheduled Friday morning release — a process that is a scramble even during normal times.
The latest disruption comes as the Bureau of Labor Statistics was still struggling to get back on schedule after the monthlong lapse in federal funding last fall. That shutdown led to the cancellation or delay of dozens of economic indicators, including critical data on inflation and the labor market. The agency did not produce an unemployment rate in October for the first time in the 77-year history of the statistic, and distortions related to the pause in data collection are expected to linger for months.
Efforts to recover from the shutdown have been hampered by staff attrition, which left positions vacant at all levels of the agency. Even before the lapse in funding, the agency had been forced to cut back data collection in some areas because of insufficient staffing levels.
On Friday, President Trump announced that he would appoint Brett Matsumoto, a little-known government economist, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Matsumoto would become the first permanent head of the agency since Mr. Trump fired the previous commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, last August.
President Trump urged House Republicans to back the spending package passed by the Senate last week, which would fund most of the government and keep the Homeland Security Department funded through Feb. 13.
As some conservative Republicans have voiced their disdain for the deal and threatened to block it, Trump said in a social media post that “there can be NO CHANGES at this time” to the legislation. “We need to get the Government open, and I hope all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this Bill, and send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY.”
Reporting from Washington
Some federal workers have begun to receive furlough notices, as Washington waits to see if Congress will end a partial government shutdown that began over the weekend.
The shutdown that started at 12:01 a.m. Saturday threw much of the federal government and millions of workers into limbo, amid a bitter dispute over how the Trump administration is cracking down on immigration, especially in Minnesota. The agencies affected include the Pentagon, the Treasury, and the departments of State, Transportation, Homeland Security, Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development. The Senate passed a package to restore their funding, but the House has yet to act.
In the meantime, the rollout of partial closures has been haphazard compared to the record-long shutdown last fall. Some agencies have given employees explicit instructions, while others have not issued general guidance as they determine whether swift action by Congress might let them avoid significant interruptions.
At the Transportation Department, about a fifth of its more than 53,000 workers were set to be furloughed, according to its detailed plan published on Friday. The vast majority of the furloughed workers are from the Federal Aviation Administration, where about a quarter of employees were to be affected by the lapse. While the department made exceptions and will pay workers in air traffic control hiring, training and safety oversight, air traffic controllers are being required to work without pay.
Employees at the Labor Department will feel an even stronger impact, with furloughs planned for almost three quarters of the staff. Parts of the Health and Human Services Department were also bracing for significant suspensions, with about two-thirds of the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health expected to be furloughed. Overall the department expected to furlough less than a third of staff, attributing that in part to Congress having already funded agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, which employs about 20,000 of the department’s roughly 75,000 employees, through Sept. 30.
At the same time, employees of the Internal Revenue Service were told to report to work at least through Feb. 7, according to a memo indicating the agency would draw on funds from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to avoid feeling the effects of the shutdown.
By midafternoon Monday, the impact of the shutdown on other major departments was less clear.
Representatives for the Pentagon did not respond to queries about how broadly the Defense Department or its military branches had issued furlough notices, though one public affairs officer reached on Monday said that civilian employees of the press office were not at work. Uniformed personnel are traditionally expected to work through government shutdowns, usually without pay, as their roles are considered essential to national security.
The State Department’s official guidance suggested that offices with residual funding might be able to avoid the impacts of a shutdown, and that employees of affected offices would use the first workday of the funding lapse, Monday, to wind down their work. Nikki Gamer, a spokeswoman for the American Foreign Service Association, said that because of such transitional requirements, it was too soon to tell how many foreign service officers might be furloughed.
Employees of the Transportation Security Administration, part of the Homeland Security Department, are expected to work through government shutdowns without pay. During the fall shutdown, the vast majority of Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, as well as those from Customs and Border Protection, also worked without pay. It was not immediately clear how broadly furloughs might affect the rest of the department.
Under a 2019 law, furloughed employees are expected to get back pay once federal funding is restored. During last year’s record-long shutdown, some lawmakers challenged that requirement, arguing against paying workers who were not forced to work unpaid through the shutdown. Ultimately, federal workers were compensated for the time they were furloughed.
The conduct of ICE has been at the heart of the dispute that led to the partial government shutdown. After the fatal shootings of two citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis by federal agents as part of the agency’s immigration crackdown, Democrats bristled at continuing to fund the agency’s operations. The deal struck and passed in the Senate provides its parent department, Homeland Security, with only two weeks of funding, while funding other departments through the rest of the fiscal year, which ends on September 30.
Democrats want to use those two weeks to force restrictions on ICE’s operations through further negotiations with the White House.
John Ismay, Edward Wong and Hamed Aleaziz contributed reporting.
Trump and Johnson press the House G.O.P. to back a deal to reopen the government.
A spending deal to fund most of the government gained momentum in the House on Monday, as President Trump and Republican leaders pressured conservative Republicans to drop their objections to allowing quick action to enact it and end the partial government shutdown.
The agreement, which the Senate approved on Friday and was the product of negotiations among Senate Republican and Democratic leaders and the White House, would keep the Department of Homeland Security running for two weeks while Democrats and Mr. Trump negotiate restrictions on the administration’s immigration crackdown.
But as the bill moved through the Senate, some hard-right lawmakers had raised objections and demanded changes that would have imperiled it, forcing Mr. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson to maneuver to line up the votes to bring it up as planned on Tuesday.
By Monday evening, they had persuaded at least two lawmakers who had threatened to derail the spending legislation to back down. Their turnabouts came after Mr. Trump, who endorsed the agreement last week and asked lawmakers to vote for it, reiterated that he wanted to see the legislation passed.
“I hope all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this bill, and send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY,” he wrote on social media. “There can be NO CHANGES at this time.”
The House must give final approval to the agreement to reopen major parts of the government — including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation and the Treasury — that were shuttered on Saturday morning.
To do so, Mr. Johnson, who can hardly afford any defections given his minuscule majority, must pull together near-unanimous Republican support to get it to the floor. The House took a preliminary step forward on Monday night, when a panel controlled by the speaker advanced the package without making changes.
Representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, and Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee, had threatened to vote against advancing the package unless Republicans attached unrelated legislation that would require that individuals prove that they are American citizens before they can register to vote in elections.
The House passed such a measure, known as the SAVE Act, last year over the opposition of Democrats, who called it unnecessary and argued its requirements would be so burdensome that they could discourage Americans from exercising their right to vote. It has stalled in the Senate, where it would need the backing of at least seven Democrats to reach the 60-vote threshold to proceed to a vote.
But after being summoned to a meeting at the White House on Monday, Ms. Luna and Mr. Burchett backed down, telling reporters that they had been given “assurances” that the Senate would find a way to take up the bill.
Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina, another Republican who had raised objections to the spending deal, said on Monday that he would “reluctantly” vote to advance it.
Representative Greg Steube, Republican of Florida, said he was opposed overall to the spending package, the product of weeks of bipartisan negotiations, arguing that it contained excessive earmarks requested by lawmakers and funded foreign aid efforts he rejects.
“I will not support that approach,” he said. “Our law enforcement and border security professionals deserve clean and responsible funding.”
Representative Eric Burlison, Republican of Missouri, told a local radio station that the spending measure, which he opposed as it moved through the House this month, “did not get better; it got worse.”
“I don’t know why they think that they’re going to be able to get all the Republicans to vote for this,” he said in an interview with KSGF, a Springfield, Mo., station.
House Republicans have throughout Mr. Trump’s second term insisted they would block legislation, only to buckle when faced with pressure from the White House. They have repeatedly taken the president’s word when he has stepped in at critical moments to assure them he will address their priorities, commitments that have not always come to fruition.
Mr. Johnson, who has frequently leaned on the president for legislative support, is in a particularly tight spot this week. On Monday evening, he swore in to the House a Democrat who had won a special election in Texas, whittling down the Republican edge in the chamber to the point where he can afford just one defection on any party-line vote if all members are present. It was not yet clear whether he had marshaled the support to bring the measure to a vote.
The spending agreement was also dividing House Democrats, many of whom staunchly oppose providing any money for the Department of Homeland Security — even a two-week stopgap measure — given the violent tactics federal agents have used in carrying out Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, urged his colleagues on Monday to oppose the package, arguing in a letter that Democrats “must act now to demand real changes” before giving more funds to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
The issue of continuing to provide funding for ICE — particularly after Republicans included $75 billion in funding for the agency in their marquee tax bill over the summer — has emerged as a particularly politically toxic one for Democrats.
But driving some of the opposition is also skepticism among Democrats that Republican leaders will agree to any significant changes to the agency. A number of Republicans, for example, have already objected to Democrats’ demand that immigration agents not wear masks.
“The reason that ICE agents wear masks is to protect their own identities and protect their own families,” Mr. Johnson said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “And in some circumstances, they’ve had a price put on their heads effectively by local officials.”
Some Democrats signaled that they would vote for the package if House Republicans were able to clear the procedural hurdle required to move it to the floor for a vote.
Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said on Monday that she would do so. The stopgap measure for homeland security, she said, “gives us time and it gives us leverage to secure the protections that we need for our communities.”
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, said on Monday that “there’s a variety of different perspectives” within his caucus on the spending package, and that Democrats would continue to discuss it.
But Mr. Jeffries said that it was “hard to imagine” members of his party helping Mr. Johnson muster the votes to get the spending package to the floor.
An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in tax legislation passed last year. It was $75 billion, not $75 million.
The spending package that would fund most of the federal government just cleared a key procedural hurdle, bringing it one step closer to a vote on the House floor.
The House Rules Committee, a panel that determines which legislation reaches the floor, approved a measure that would allow Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the spending package to the floor without any changes.
Johnson must still corral the fractious Republican conference together to advance the measure to the floor before it receives a full vote.
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