🚨 BREAKING: US Senate votes to fund the government and AVERT a lengthy government shutdown — but they now need the HOUSE to come back and pass it
Democrats are STILL PLAYING GAMES with DHS funding and negotiations will continue.
HOLD THE LINE ON ICE AND DHS, GOP! Do not give… pic.twitter.com/FRVUqPXlkH
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 30, 2026
Democrats vowed to block the entire funding package that had been carefully negotiated over months between Republican and Democratic members of the Appropriations Committee, putting Congress on course for what some lawmakers feared would be another prolonged government shutdown.
But senators managed to save the funding package by negotiating a last-minute deal with the White House to split off the Homeland Security appropriations bill from the five other spending measures funding the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Transportation and State, among others.
While the legislation passed the Senate before government funding expires at midnight, it still needs to pass the House, which is slated to return on Monday, before going to President Trump’s desk for a signature.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5715914-senate-government-funding-package/