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02:14 PM: The House voted 217 to 214 end the partial government shutdown and fund major parts of the government. Once signed by President Trump, this closes the four-day partial shutdown, but funding ...

The Senate's compromise to end the ongoing partial government shutdown survived an important hurdle on Monday night, teeing up the legislation for a vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders plan to vote Tuesday to pass a government funding package approved by the Senate, three days after a shutdown began. Funding lapsed Saturday amid divisions in ...

The shutdown started after Democrats demanded change to immigration enforcement. The Senate passed a spending bill Friday that extends spending for DHS for two weeks while lawmakers negotiate over ICE ...

A House vote today, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, to end the government shutdown 2026 and reopen the government is possible but will face Democratic opposition after a Senate vote to fund affected agencies ...

Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the deal Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment. By Michael Gold Reporting from the ...

The House Rules Committee will be taking up a funding package on Monday to end the partial government shutdown that began this weekend. There’s a big new oil-and-gas merger, but shareholders aren’t ...

The House this week is racing to end a partial government shutdown that took effect on Saturday. The lower chamber will consider a massive funding package that includes five full-year appropriations ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he was “confident” the partial government shutdown would end quickly, telling “Meet the Press” his caucus would vote to fund the government as soon as Tuesday ...

US House Speaker Mike Johnson expressed confidence Sunday that he has the votes to end by Tuesday a partial government shutdown triggered by the Trump administration's violent immigration sweeps in ...

That’s where 1971’s “Punishment Park” lands with terrifying precision in 2026. As tempers flare across the United States, and the fear of authoritarianism intensifies under a second Trump ...