Senate Strikes Deal to Fund Government, Averting a Shutdown

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Senate Strikes Deal to Fund Government, Averting a Shutdown

Paul Bois 29 Jan 2026

The U.S. Senate struck a deal to fund the government on Thursday, averting a partial government shutdown as the mid-term elections loom large.

Senate Democrats and Republicans agreed to split the bill “funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) off from a ‘minibus’ package of five other major funding bills,” per The Hill.

    The Senate will instead move a stopgap bill known as a continuing resolution (CR) that would fund DHS at current levels until Feb. 13.

    The two sides had haggled over the length of the CR, with Democrats insisting on the two-week version that won out.

    Republicans had sought a six-week CR.

Top Republicans will reportedly circulate the deal among its members to see if any amendments will be necessary. The five remaining bills covering the departments of Defense, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Labor and Education are “full-year measures, meaning that roughly 96 percent of the government will be funded for fiscal 2026.”

President Trump celebrated the deal in Truth Social post on Thursday night.

“I am working hard with Congress to ensure that we are able to fully fund the Government, without delay. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to get the vast majority of the Government funded until September, while at the same time providing an extension to the Department of Homeland Security (including the very important Coast Guard, which we are expanding and rebuilding like never before),” he wrote.

“Hopefully, both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed Bipartisan ‘YES’ Vote,” he added.

According to the Associated Press, the Senate “could vote on the deal as soon as Thursday evening.”

“In the House, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told The Associated Press on Thursday that he had been ‘vehemently opposed’ to breaking up the funding package, but ‘if it is broken up, we will have to move it as quickly as possible. We can’t have the government shut down,'” the AP noted.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/29/senate-strikes-deal-to-fund-government-averting-a-shutdown/

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In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

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Senate shutdown deal stalls over Graham objection
The Hill, Jan 29, 2026

The Senate’s race to avert a shutdown hit the skids late Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) placed a hold on the government funding package, forcing leaders to punt the vote.

Senators had been hoping to vote on the so-called minibus after leaders struck a deal earlier in the day and President Trump endorsed it. Under the agreement, the Senate was set to vote on a package of five full-year funding bills and a stopgap measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for two weeks.

But as lawmakers awaited word on the vote late Thursday, a fired-up Graham emerged from Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) office and declared, “We’re not voting tonight.”

Graham pointed to language in the bill that would repeal a provision allowing senators to sue if their phone records were collected as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe.

“What senator wouldn’t want notification that they’re looking at your phone?” he said.

"I fixed the problem that people had. I’m not going to ignore what happened. If you were abused, you think you were abused, your phone records were illegally seized — you should have your day in court,” Graham said. “Every senator should want to make sure this never happens again.”

The so-called Arctic Frost provision, championed by Graham, passed as part of the bill to end the historic government shutdown last year — and prompted anger in the House.


More: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5714316-senate-government-funding-shutdown/.