Democrats, DHS and Senate
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Negotiators in both chambers of Congress have reached an agreement to fund every federal agency in fiscal 2026, with appropriators announcing a final deal on Tuesday, giving lawmakers 10 days to get the remaining bills to President Trump’s desk before a shutdown would occur.
Moderate House Democrats teamed with Republicans to pass a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, overcoming a revolt over ICE.
The Senate plans to take up the package next week to meet a Jan. 30 deadline, but a potential snowstorm could present a hurdle.
The House is voting Thursday on the remaining bills to fund the government as the deadline to avoid another shutdown nears.
After Senate Republicans empowered themselves to file lucrative “Arctic Frost” lawsuits, House Republicans voted unanimously to take that power away.
The House voted to repeal a Senate GOP measure allowing lawmakers to sue the government for $500K, attaching it to a funding bill that could keep the government open.
A second high-profile killing by a federal agent in Minneapolis has jeopardized the chances of Congress averting a partial government shutdown as Democrats come out en masse against the funding measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The House approved an amendment to a must-pass funding package that would repeal a controversial provision that allows senators to sue for $500,000.
With a series of candidate recruiting successes, Democrats have established a plausible, if still difficult, path to recapturing the Senate this year. But to regain the majority, the party will need to overcome the blue-collar barricade.
The House on Thursday moved to jam the Senate with a repeal of a law that allowed senators to sue for substantial sums if they weren’t notified when law enforcement sought their phone records — adding the repeal to a government funding bill that the Senate will have to approve next week or risk