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/

[Hoodat]

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

-Ayn Rand-

[Right_in_Virginia]

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/.

[Free Vulcan]

Have to admit that I'm to the point of just getting rid of the debt ceiling. It's done nothing to stop the debt from rising, and leads to the hostage taking drama every time we have to make a deal to keep the govt from shutting down.

[Bigun]

Why do I feel my wallet getting lighter every time they announce one of these deals?

[bilo]

I don't care about a shutdown. What I want to see is all ICE operations left alone.

[DefiantMassRINO]

I want to see "sanctuary" jurisdictions brought to heel to follow Federal Law.

If ICE could round 'em up in the prisons, they wouldn't have round 'em up on the streets.

Dems need to stop harboring criminal illegal alien foreigners if they want to "defend democracy" and us to be a "nation of laws".  Dems haven't been upholding those laws nor respecting the outcome of elections.

The America People voted to deport criminal illegal alien foreigners by their choice of President.  Legally, the criminal illegal alien foreigners should already be gone.

Why does a class of 10 - 20 million criminal illegal alien foreigners get impunity from Federal Law while the rest are expected to let the Government confiscate 1/3 of our gross wages?

[Bigun]

I want to see "sanctuary" jurisdictions brought to heel to follow Federal Law.

If ICE could round 'em up in the prisons, they wouldn't have round 'em up on the streets.

Dems need to stop harboring criminal illegal alien foreigners if they want to "defend democracy" and us to be a "nation of laws".  Dems haven't been upholding those laws nor respecting the outcome of elections.

The America People voted to deport criminal illegal alien foreigners by their choice of President.  Legally, the criminal illegal alien foreigners should already be gone.

Why does a class of 10 - 20 million criminal illegal alien foreigners get impunity from Federal Law while the rest are expected to let the Government confiscate 1/3 of our gross wages?

I have never understood how a "sanctuary jurisdiction" can exist in the first place. Laws are for everybody.

[Hoodat]

I have never understood how a "sanctuary jurisdiction" can exist in the first place. Laws are for everybody.

You clearly do not understand how fascism works.

[DefiantMassRINO]

"Sanctuary Jurisdiction" is imaginary.  Under the law, there no such thing.  It was Dem imagineering.

Let me know when there is a "Santacuary Jurisdication" for paying taxes.

I have never understood how a "sanctuary jurisdiction" can exist in the first place. Laws are for everybody.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2017270140513984719

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Graham threatens shutdown deal over House-backed repeal, warns Johnson: 'I won't forget this'
South Carolina senator threatens to block government funding package over House repeal of Arctic Frost provision
By Alex Miller , Elizabeth Elkind Fox News
Published January 30, 2026 1:17pm EST

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., unloaded his frustrations with the latest iteration of a government funding package backed by President Donald Trump and laid out a stark warning to the top House Republican and the White House in the process.

Graham is one of the few remaining holdouts blocking the Senate from moving on to a government funding package brokered by Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as lawmakers race to beat the government funding deadline at midnight on Friday.

The top Trump ally’s frustrations with the funding package have little to do with the president or the deal struck with Schumer. Much of his ire is directed at a provision tucked in by the House last week that would repeal a law that allows senators whose phone records were subpoenaed by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for up to $500,000 per infraction.

And Graham was not happy that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., let the repeal slip through.

"You could have called me about the $500,000," Graham said. "I'd be glad to work with you. You jammed me, Speaker Johnson. I won't forget this. I got a lot of good friends in the House. If you think I'm going to give up on this, you really don't know me."

Graham has been a vocal proponent of that law, which was slipped into the last funding patch by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., with a green light from Schumer.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/graham-threatens-shutdown-deal-over-house-backed-repeal-warns-johnson-i-wont-forget-this

[Free Vulcan]

https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2017270140513984719

I think the lefty commie antifa anarchy contingent should be made aware of this and encouraged to pay the Rat congresspeople a personal visit.

That would be an excellent use of their talents, just sayin'.

[Hoodat]

Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
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🚨 Sen. Markwayne Mullin just EXPOSED the Dem shutdown scam:

Shutting down the government DOESN’T TOUCH ICE at all, it’s funded for 3-4 YEARS thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill!

Only FEMA, Secret Service, TSA, and Coast Guard get hit.

This is what makes it a win-win.  ICE keeps its funding, while all the free-shit money that funds the Democrat Party gets cut off.

Yet Republicans already have surrendered.  They were given a slam-dunk guaranteed win, and they forfeited.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Much of his ire is directed at a provision tucked in by the House last week that would repeal a law that allows senators whose phone records were subpoenaed by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for up to $500,000 per infraction.

We so dumb.

We watch politicos on the Left make unexplained millions and do nothing. 

Then pass legislation to stop ourselves from rightly sue them for $$$.

[andy58-in-nh]

Why do I feel my wallet getting lighter every time they announce one of these deals?

Because you've been around long enough to know when someone who claims to be helping you is actually trying to pick your pocket.