What to know about the partial government shutdown:
- Back in Washington, the House on Monday began considering a revised funding package to end the partial government shutdown that started over the weekend.
- The lower chamber is working to pass a five-bill package to fund the departments of Defense, State, Treasury and others, as well as a two-week extension of funding for the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS funding has been at the center of the impasse, with Democrats demanding reforms to how immigration enforcement agencies like ICE conduct their operations.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson faces an uphill task in uniting the GOP conference to advance the plan. Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Johnson over the weekend that Democrats would not supply the votes needed to fast-track passage, meaning Republicans will need to get the bills across the finish line mostly on their own. President Trump urged Republicans to vote for the package without amendments in a post Monday afternoon.
- The House Rules Committee advanced the funding package late Monday, the first step before it reaches the floor on Tuesday.
House Rules Committee advances funding package
The House Rule easily advanced the funding package in a party-line vote late Monday, teeing it up for a floor vote Tuesday.
If the full House passes the funding package and President Trump signs it into law, the partial government shutdown that began after midnight on Saturday will end.
Luna and Burchett will help advance funding package after White House meeting
GOP Reps. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Tim Burchett of Tennessee told reporters they will vote “yes” in a party-line procedural vote on Tuesday to advance the funding package passed by the Senate last week.
The two were seen as barriers to getting the funding package across the finish line, but dropped their opposition after a meeting at the White House. Luna, who had been calling for the SAVE Act to be attached to the funding package, said she and Burchett discussed using a standing filibuster to get a vote on the legislation in the Senate during the White House meeting.
The SAVE Act would require Americans to show proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections.
“As of right now, based on the current discussion that we just had with the White House as well as several senators, there is something called a standing filibuster that would effectively allow Sen. Thune to put voter ID on the floor of the Senate,” Luna said.
“The standing filibuster is an old-school parliamentary procedure,” she said, “But it’s a way to break through what we consider traditional norms to get voter ID passed.”
Luna said Thune was open to the idea.
GOP majority narrows as Johnson swears in Texas Democrat
On Monday night, Johnson administered the oath of office to Rep. Christian Menefee, a Texas Democrat, narrowing Republicans’ majority in the lower chamber.
Democrats now have 214 members compared with Republicans’ 218. Johnson can now lose just one Republican vote, if all members are present and voting along party lines.
“Congratulations,” Johnson told Menefee after he was sworn in.
Menefee then gave brief remarks on the floor, noting that his district has been without representation for nearly a year and he has “very big shoes to fill.”
Menefree replaces Democrat Sylvester Turner, who died last March.
DeLauro, top Democratic appropriator, says she will support final passage of funding package
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said she plans to vote for the funding package on the House floor.
“I will support this package,” she told the House Rules Committee.
She said the two-week extension of DHS funding gives Democrats “leverage” to secure the reforms to immigration enforcement that they are demanding.
“For if we do not do that, we will not be able to bring the kinds of pressure that is necessary to make sure that ICE does not continue to terrorize our communities,” she said.
Crucially, DeLauro did not say she would vote to approve the rule governing debate over the final package. That procedural hurdle could prove to be Johnson’s biggest obstacle on Tuesday, since Democrats are expected to be united in opposing the rule.
Johnson still confident about passing government funding by Tuesday
After meeting with Republicans on the House Rules Committee, Johnson said he was confident the lower chamber will pass the funding package Tuesday.
“I think we’ll get it done by tomorrow,” Johnson told reporters.
Johnson also pushed back on demands from some conservatives to attach the SAVE Act to the funding package, saying “this is a funding package right now and I don’t think we need to be playing games with government funding.”
“We’ve got to get the job done,” he said.
Johnson said he had not asked the president to call conservatives who have expressed concerns.
House reconvenes to debate bills unrelated to funding package
The House reconvened at 4:30 p.m. to debate half a dozen bills unrelated to the funding package. Votes are slated to begin around 6:30 p.m. on the legislation.
The funding package isn’t expected to see floor action until Tuesday at the earliest.
Jeffries: “Hard to imagine a scenario” where Democrats help advance funding package
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries maintained that Democrats do not plan to help Republicans advance the funding package during a procedural vote if it falls short of GOP support.
“Republicans have a responsibility to move the rule,” the New York Democrat said in response to a question from CBS News, adding that it’s “hard to imagine a scenario” where Democrats step in.
“On rare occasions have we stepped in to deal with Republican dysfunction,” Jeffries told reporters.
Jeffries, however, did not rule out Democratic support on final passage. He said Democrats have a leadership meeting later Monday to discuss next steps and noted there’s “strong” Democratic support for the five bipartisan funding bills that comprise the package.
After meeting with Johnson, House Rules Committee takes up funding package, Clinton contempt resolutions
The House Rules Committee convened shortly after 4 p.m. to take up the funding package, which includes a two-week extension for DHS funding, and the contempt resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Before the meeting began, Johnson met with GOP members of the committee.
“The speaker came by for an impromptu meeting,” Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, who leads the committee, said as the meeting began.
The committee is the first House procedural hurdle that the funding package will have to clear before final passage, and Monday’s meeting could last for hours.
Christian Menefee, new Texas Democrat, to be sworn in Monday evening
Democratic Rep.-elect Christian Menefee, who won a special election in Texas over the weekend, will be sworn in as a member of the House at 6:45 p.m. ET, according to a notice from Johnson’s office.
Menefee’s swearing-in will give Democrats 214 seats in the House, compared to Republicans’ 218. That means Johnson will be able to afford just one defection, assuming all members are present and voting and Democrats remain united.
Trump urges lawmakers to support funding package without changes
President Trump urged lawmakers to support the funding agreement as it stands, saying the House should “send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY,” while noting that there should be “NO CHANGES at this time.”
“I am working hard with Speaker Johnson to get the current funding deal, which passed in the Senate last week, through the House and to my desk, where I will sign it into Law, IMMEDIATELY!” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social Monday afternoon.
The post comes as some House Republicans have pushed to attach to the funding package the SAVE Act, which would require Americans to show proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections. The president suggested the issue can be addressed at a later date.
“We will work together in good faith to address the issues that have been raised, but we cannot have another long, pointless, and destructive Shutdown that will hurt our Country so badly — One that will not benefit Republicans or Democrats,” Mr. Trump said. “I hope everyone will vote, YES!”
Jobs report this week will be delayed by shutdown, Labor Department says
The Department of Labor won’t issue its report on U.S. hiring in January on Friday as planned because of the partial government shutdown.
“The Employment Situation release for January 2026 will not be released as scheduled on Friday, February 6, 2026. The release will be rescheduled upon the resumption of government funding,” a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unit that compiles the monthly unemployment report, told CBS News in an email.
The disruption in jobs data comes amid questions about the strength of the labor market, with large corporations such as Amazon and UPS announcing major job cuts in recent weeks.
Schumer says adding SAVE Act to funding package would cause prolonged shutdown
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that attaching an elections-related bill known as the SAVE Act to the funding package, like some House Republicans have demanded, would doom the legislation in the upper chamber. The bill would require Americans to show proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections.
“I have said it before and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow type laws to the entire country and is dead on arrival in the Senate,” Schumer said in a statement Monday. “It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to. If House Republicans add the SAVE Act to the bipartisan appropriations package it will lead to another prolonged Trump government shutdown.”
Some conservatives in the House, like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, have demanded that the legislation be attached to the funding package to reopen the government. It passed the House in April but hasn’t been taken up in the Senate.
Schumer argued that the SAVE Act is “not about securing our elections,” but about “suppressing voters.”
“The SAVE Act seeks to disenfranchise millions of American citizens, seize control of our elections, and fan the flames of election skepticism and denialism,” Schumer said. “Democrats will go all out to defeat the SAVE Act and defend free and fair elections.”
New House Democrat expected to be sworn in soon, shrinking GOP majority
Rep-elect Christian Menefee won a special election to represent Texas in the House on Saturday and is expected to be sworn in soon, shrinking the Republican majority in the lower chamber.
Menefee is filling a vacancy left by the late Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died in March weeks after taking office.
The party breakdown in the House currently stands at 218 Republicans to 213 Democrats, with four vacancies. Once Menefee is sworn in, House Speaker Mike Johnson will only be able to lose one vote and still command a majority — making the task of shepherding a funding package and negotiating on DHS funds even more precarious.
Here are the departments affected by the government shutdown
In addition to DHS, funding for other major departments and their subagencies has lapsed. They include:
- Defense Department
- State Department
- Department of Labor
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Education
- Department of Transportation
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Treasury Department
Several of the departments have notices on their websites about the funding lapse. “Due to a lapse in appropriations, website updates will be limited until full operations resume,” the State Department’s site says. The Labor Department’s homepage includes a notice that “[u]pdates to the site will start again when the Federal government resumes operations.”
Lawmakers face short timeline to negotiate DHS funding with ICE reforms
Beyond the immediate task of funding the government, the approach is also setting up a short timeline to negotiate funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which has been at the center of the spending fight.
The two-week funding measure for DHS, which Democrats advocated for, means both parties have little time to come to an agreement over how to reform the administration’s approach to immigration enforcement.
In the wake of two deadly shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis, Democrats have demanded a number of reforms, including an end to roving patrols and tightening of the rules governing the use of warrants, along with requiring ICE to coordinate with state and local law enforcement. They’ve also demanded a uniform code of conduct and accountability to hold federal agents to the same use-of-force policies as state and local law enforcement and a “masks off, body cameras on” policy for federal agents.
Republicans had pushed for a longer timeline for negotiations, with up to a six-week continuing resolution for DHS. And Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters after the Senate approved the funding package last week that it’s going to be “really, really hard to get anything done.”
“We’ll stay hopeful but there are some pretty significant differences of opinion,” Thune said.
Johnson appeared more optimistic Sunday that a resolution can be reached in the short timeline.
“I’ve got to get everybody in a room and work this out. I think we can,” Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The speaker outlined that some of the demands Democrats have made are supported by Republicans, like on ending roving patrols and requiring body cameras. But other issues, like requiring federal agents not to wear masks and to identify themselves, would meet opposition.
“The head of DHS and the head of the operations in Minnesota and the president himself have said that we’re close to getting there,” Johnson said of negotiations. “We can agree to some of these conditions, because everybody, all the American people, want the law to be enforced and done in a meaningful and efficient and effective way.”
House Homeland Security Committee Democrats urge colleagues to oppose funding package
House Homeland Security Committee Democrats, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, sent a letter to their Democratic colleagues on Sunday urging them to vote against the government funding package that includes a two-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
“Democrats must act now to demand real changes that protect our communities before Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) receive another dollar in funding,” the Democrats wrote in the letter. “This is what our constituents elected us to do — to hold ICE and this administration accountable when they fail to adhere to the Constitution or follow the law.”
The Democrats outlined a number of changes they’re seeking, including bringing an end to the immigration operation in Minneapolis and clawing back funds ICE and CBP received in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year. They added that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem “must go.”
Johnson says he expects House to fund the government by Tuesday
Johnson expressed confidence in a pair of interviews Sunday that the House will pass the funding package to reopen the government by Tuesday, despite a number of hurdles ahead.
“We have a logistical challenge of getting everyone in town,” Johnson said Sunday on “Meet the Press.” “And because of the conversation I had with Hakeem Jeffries, I know that we’ve got to pass a rule and probably do this mostly on our own.”
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said “Republicans are going to do the responsible thing and fund the government.” But he acknowledged that he may face some opposition among members of his own party as well.
“I have a lot of conversations to have with individual Republican members over the next 24 hours or so,” Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Still, Johnson added, “we’ll get all this done by Tuesday, I’m convinced.”
“I don’t understand why anybody would have a problem with this,” Johnson said, noting that the bulk of the funding package has already passed the House.
Johnson said “we’re going to do it again,” calling the approval a “formality at this point.”
House Rules Committee to take up funding package Monday afternoon
With the House back in Washington, the package will first go to the Rules Committee, which is set to meet Monday afternoon to consider the legislation after Democrats informed GOP leadership that they would not help fast-track the bill.
Though the Rules Committee route requires a simple majority for passage on the House floor, the legislation will need to pass several procedural hurdles where votes are typically along party-lines.
First, it’s unclear whether the funding package can clear the Rules Committee, where at least one Republican, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, has said he has his own demands for DHS funding. Second, if it advances out of the committee, there are questions about whether Johnson can keep his party united in a procedural vote before final passage.
On the floor, Johnson can only afford to lose two votes if all members are present and voting. Attendance has already created issues for Republicans this year.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, has said that she’ll withhold her support unless legislation that would require Americans to show proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections is attached.
Any changes to the package would require sending it back to the Senate, prolonging the shutdown.
House Democrats not expected to help GOP fast-track funding deal
House Democrats conveyed to GOP leadership over the weekend that they wouldn’t provide the votes to help pass the funding package under suspension of the rules — a maneuver that would fast track the legislation’s passage.
“We need a full and complete debate,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on MSNOW Saturday. “And what I’ve made clear to House Republicans is that they cannot simply move forward with legislation taking a ‘my way or the highway’ approach.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke Saturday, two sources familiar with the conversation confirmed to CBS News.
Johnson acknowledged on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that after his call with Jeffries, he expects Republicans will “probably do this mostly on our own.”
The dynamic means Johnson will have to shepherd the legislation through the Rules Committee before it goes to the floor for a simple majority vote. GOP leaders, with a narrow majority in the chamber, must have near unanimous support among Republicans — and could still face hurdles from conservatives on the Rules Committee and otherwise.
Here’s what’s behind the partial government shutdown
The Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement has been the focus of this funding fight.
Since the longest shutdown in U.S. history last fall, lawmakers have been working to pass individual spending bills to fund federal agencies through September 2026. Congress has passed six of those bills already, and they have been signed by the president. The other six are the focus of the current funding fight.
While the funding measures had been on track to pass ahead of the deadline earlier this month, the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis changed things for Democrats. They came out fiercely against funding for DHS without further reforms, and in the Senate, Democrats pledged not to provide the votes to move forward on the funding package unless the DHS money was stripped out.
Reposted from CBS
