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Mon, April 13, 2026:

• The Senate reconvenes today, followed by the House tomorrow. Top of the agenda will be trying to end the DHS shutdown.

Fri, April 10, 2026:

• Trump Plans to Request $98 Billion in Supplemental Funds for Iran War and More; request expected to include disaster aid and aviation funding. - NOTUS

• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told all furloughed employees to return to work despite the ​ongoing partial government shutdown, according to a notice sent to employees ‌on Friday. The recall notice said that all currently furloughed employees are to return to duty on their next regularly scheduled workday, which for most will be Monday. - Reuters

• Pay Fears Grow For US Security Workers In Shutdown - Barron’s

• DHS calling furloughed staff back to work despite shutdown - FNN

Thurs, April 9, 2026:

• DHS staffers are now getting paid during the shutdown. Here’s how - CNN

• House appropriators have pushed back plans to mark up a fiscal 2027 Defense spending bill by about a month because of uncertainty over how to finance a massive surge in Pentagon funding sought by the Trump administration… A tentative schedule last month called for a subcommittee markup of the Defense bill on May 15, followed by a full-committee markup on May 19. But those markups have been delayed until June 11 and June 24, respectively, under the latest plan. - Roll Call

• Confusion surrounds Trump effort to pay TSA, DHS; some could see last paycheck Friday - Hill

Wed, April 8, 2026:

• DHS staff to get back pay starting Friday. DHS employees are set to receive back pay through April 4 thanks to re-directed funding, but future paychecks likely depend on Congress ending the shutdown. - FNN

• GOP infighting replaces clash with Dems, derails path to end historic DHS shutdown. When the House returns Tuesday, the shutdown will have reached 59 days

Tues, April 7, 2026:

• Congressional Appropriators Worry Their Committees’ Powers Are Waning

  Appropriations members could see their power culled even more with the plan to fund DHS through reconciliation. - NOTUS

• Freedom Caucus calls for full DHS funding in reconciliation bill, rejecting leadership plan - Hill

• House Democrats convened virtually Monday night to talk strategy ahead of next week when two major bills — FISA reauthorization and funding for the Department of Homeland Security — will be on their plate. - Punchbowl

Fri, April 3, 2026:

• Party-line plan for ICE funding has some fearing a slippery slope. A Trump-blessed plan would use the budget reconciliation process to deliver yearly agency funding without a bipartisan agreement. - Politico

Thurs, April 2, 2026:

• House punts on Homeland Security funding, prolonging shutdown. Even after Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security without immigration enforcement money, the House failed to take it up amid hard-right opposition. - NYT

• The thorny path to reopening DHS - Politico

• Trump said he’d sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees, raising questions around his authority to redirect spending without a vote by Congress. Republican leaders and Trump have now set a June 1 deadline to pass a partisan budget reconciliation bill to boost ICE and Border Patrol funding without the help of Senate Democrats. - Bloomberg

Wed, April 1, 2026:

• House GOP relents on DHS funding plan after Trump weighs in. The president’s demand for a party-line “reconciliation” funding bill by June 1 represents an endorsement of the Senate GOP’s approach to ending the record-setting shutdown. - Politico

• G.O.P. Leaders Strike Deal to End Homeland Security Shutdown. A bill to reopen the department, which the House G.O.P. rejected on Friday, could be approved as early as Thursday. It was a sharp turnaround by the lawmakers and President Trump. - NYT

• Republican leadership has a plan to end the record-breaking partial shutdown, Mike Johnson and John Thune announced. Congress will fund DHS through both the appropriations process and budget reconciliation. - NOTUS

Tues, March 31, 2026:

• DHS braces for shutdown ‘into the summer’ - Politico

Mon, March 30, 2026:

• DHS shutdown set to stretch on with Congress on 2-week break - CBS

• Airport bottlenecks ease as TSA workers get paid, but shutdown continues - AP

Sat, March 28, 2026:

• G.O.P. Rift Leaves Congress With No Clear Path to End the Shutdown

  The deadlock that left the Department of Homeland Security shuttered highlighted Republican divisions that are flaring ahead of the midterm elections. - NYT

• Record Number of T.S.A. Employees Called Out on Friday - NYT

Fri, March 27, 2026:

• House Vote Sets Up Clash With the Senate on D.H.S. Funding, Prolonging Shutdown. Republicans revolted over a Senate measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security and passed a rival bill, dimming the chances of a quick end to the crisis crippling airports. - NYT

• House GOP rejects bipartisan Senate bill to end DHS shutdown. Alternative eight-week stopgap measure prepped, but senators have already left for recess. - Roll Call

• Schumer: House GOP plan to pass DHS stopgap is ‘dead’ in the Senate - Hill

• ‘Meltdown’: DHS shutdown set to drag on after House GOP rejects Senate deal. Speaker Mike Johnson will instead have the House vote on a two-month funding punt that cannot pass the Senate. - Politico

• TSA officers will start getting paychecks as early as Monday, DHS says - CNBC

• Senate passes DHS funding, without ICE and CBP - Axios

• Trump signs order to pay TSA employees after Congress fails to agree on DHS funding - AP
  TrillionsWeekly: Trump said his administration would use “funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations” for the payments. Nevertheless, his executive action ignores Congress’s sole constitutional authority to appropriate funds, making the executive action illegal under the Antideficiency Act and unconstitutional under Article I.

Thurs, March 26, 2026:

• D.H.S. Funding Lapse Leads to Longest Partial Shutdown in History.

  If the shutdown continues after this weekend, it will be longer than any previous shutdown, partial or full. - NYT

• Trump to sidestep Congress, pay TSA workers - Axios

• Appropriations Ranking Democrat DeLauro says “at this moment, 85 percent of ICE and CBP are being paid. Secret Service: 75 percent. Coast Guard: 85 percent. TSA workers: zero. But the TSA administrator confirmed yesterday that the Department made the decision not to pay TSA workers.” - Approps
  ”I have put forward a proposal that I honestly believe is a reasonable middle ground between the two sides of this discussion. Democrats do not want to provide more funding for ICE or CBP without legally binding policy changes that protect our communities. Republicans are opposed to many of these changes, and want to fund ICE and CBP without any new protections. Neither side disagrees over funding for TSA, or FEMA, or the Coast Guard, or other parts of DHS. What we are caught up on is whether or not we can deal with ICE and CBP separately, or if we have to fund everything all at once. I do not believe it must be all-or-nothing. My proposal, which I introduced over a month ago, funds the parts of DHS that we all agree on – it funds TSA, so that these workers can get paid – they can pay their bills, they can stop sleeping in their cars, they can avoid evictions, and we can put an end to the long lines at airport security.”

Wed, March 25, 2026:

• Senate Republicans have rejected Democrats’ latest effort to end a shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. The rejected offer included demands such as having federal officers stop using masks and start using judicial warrants. - Bloomberg

Tues, March 24, 2026:

• DHS funding proposal falls flat as Democrats, conservatives and Trump raise doubts - Politico

• Airport disruptions abound as senators chase deal to end Homeland Security budget standoff - AP

• Over 450 TSA officers have quit since the partial shutdown began - AP

Sat, March 21, 2026:

• Trump Says He Will Send ICE Agents to Airports on Monday. The president issued a threat to deploy ICE agents in an apparent attempt to force Democrats to approve a new budget for the Department of Homeland Security. - NYTimes

Fri, March 20, 2026:

• Senate rejects DHS funding bill a fifth time. The shutdown affecting TSA, FEMA and other agencies hits the five-week mark Saturday. - Politico

• Bill to fund Homeland Security fails again as concern grows about airport lines - AP

• Another DHS funding vote coming to House floor next week. It will be the third attempt to pass Homeland Security appropriations. - Politico

Thurs, March 19, 2026:

• White House seeks to circumvent Schumer on potential DHS funding deal - White House border czar Tom Homan met with a group of centrist Democrats at the Capitol on Thursday, circumventing Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who didn’t attend the meeting, in hopes of reaching a deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)… (Appropriations Committee Ranking Democrat Patty) Murray told reporters that the two sides are still “a long ways apart.” - Hill

Wed, March 18, 2026:

• House Approps Dems Launch Discharge Petition on Bill to Fund TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, CISA - Hse Approps Dems

• Senators Collins and Murray Release FY2027 Appropriations Guidance for program and earmark requests - Sen Approps Committee

Tues, March 17, 2026:

• NIH Director Claims Administration Will Spend Appropriated Funds: National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya promised a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that, despite the sluggish pace of grant awards, the agency will spend its full budget by the end of the 2026 fiscal year. [However,] roughly halfway through the fiscal year, the agency has awarded 74% fewer competitive, or new, awards than the average for that same period during 2021-2024, according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins researchers. - Stat

• Democrats deliver latest DHS funding offer to White House - AP

• TSA Official Warns ‘We May Have to Quite Literally Shut Down Airports’ If DHS Shutdown Stretches On - Time

• DeLauro remarks on GOP blocking Homeland Security funding for TSA, FEMA, CISA, Coast Guard, and USSS - Hse Approps Dems

• White House details offer to end partial government shutdown. The Department of Homeland Security shutdown has saddled flyers with long lines at airports. - WP
  The White House offer does not address several of the Democrats’ top priorities, including requiring judicial warrants to enter private properties and barring agents from wearing masks, which obscures identities. It also ignores Democrats’ request that DHS adheres to and enforces a policy that bars excessive use of force, similar to state and local police oversight.

• As reported by NOTUS: The White House this afternoon submitted another response to Democrats’ demands for reforms at DHS. The letter is the first public list of concessions that the Trump administration has said it would make. White House letter

• Over half of Houston TSA employees called out as funding stalemate creates havoc - CNN

Mon, March 16, 2026:

• Security Lines Snake Out of More Terminals as T.S.A. Goes Unpaid. “There’s going to be a breaking point sooner or later,” one union official warned, with travelers at some airports being told to arrive three hours ahead of time.- NYT

• House Appropriations Comm. dives into FY 2027 hearings - Punchbowl

Wed, March 11, 2026:

• Republicans block Dem. bill to fund DHS agencies other than ICE, CBP - Hill

• Global Entry reopens, but airport wait times could still be long - WP

• TSA absences double during shutdown, 300 officers quit, as some airports see longer security lines - CBS

• As another shutdown impacts travelers, some see privatizing TSA screening as a solution - AP

Tues, March 10, 2026:

• White House, Democrats trade blame for missed paychecks and airport delays

  More than 100,000 federal workers are slated to miss entire paychecks in the coming days. - GovExec

• Houston Hobby Airport is recommending travelers arrive 3-4 hours before flights due to TSA delays resulting from short-staffing during the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. - Axios

• Congress still searching for DHS compromise as government shutdown nears the month mark - Scripps

• The shutdown that everyone has forgotten - WP
  Democrats want tighter controls on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which falls under DHS, in exchange for their votes to reopen the department. They show no signs of breaking, with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine (Virginia) stating over the weekend that the party wants to fund every part of DHS except those that deal with immigration — reopening the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency… Republicans have maintained that they want the department fully funded, not broken out into pieces. While DHS is shut down, its immigration enforcement arms actually have the money to continue functioning as normal — those agencies received $170 billion for immigration enforcement under the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill… Some Republicans believe that worsening airport delays will help soften Democratic resolve on the shutdown.

Mon, March 9, 2026:

• Airports see hours-long delays due to TSA shortages as Homeland Security shutdown shows no sign of ending - CNN

• Weekend travelers encounter long waits at some airports during DHS shutdown - PBS

• Travelers complain of long waits at airports amid DHS shutdown - Hill

• White House says Trump’s SAVE Act threat not applicable to DHS funding

  Though the president said he wouldn’t sign any legislation until voting restrictions are approved, bills can still become law after 10 days if they’re not vetoed. - USA Today

Fri, March 6, 2026:

• Travel industry rallies support for TSA staff working without pay during shutdown. The screeners and more than 100,000 additional DHS staff are on the verge of missing their first full paychecks. - GovExec

Thurs, March 5, 2026:

• House passed DHS funding bill: DHS funding bill passed the House, with eroding Democratic support - Hill
  The lower chamber voted 221-209 to pass the bill. Four Democrats joined Republicans in favor of the measure — fewer than those who voted for an almost identical bill in January… Democrats have been demanding that the White House reform its immigration enforcement tactics. The two sides have traded counterproposals, but both have dismissed the other’s as inadequate, leaving negotiations at a standstill.

• DHS funding bill passes the House, with eroding Democratic support - Hill

• Senate defeated DHS funding bill: For the third time, a bill to fund DHS failed as Democrats refused to support the funding without new restrictions on federal immigration agents. - NYT
  All Democrats but one, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, opposed the measure in a 51-to-45 vote, leaving it short of the 60 votes needed to move ahead.

• Jeffries says Noem ouster won’t affect DHS funding fight - Hill

Wed, March 4, 2026:

• Noem says DHS has funds for one more paycheck for Coast Guard amid shutdown - CBS

Tues, March 3, 2026:

• Iran war triggers talk of supplemental defense funding - Roll Call

• Democrats say they won’t relent on DHS funding demands because of Iran war. Republicans have called on Democrats to drop their demands for changes to immigration enforcement because of the war. Democrats aren’t buying their argument. - NBC

Mon, March 2, 2026:

• Congress searches for shutdown off-ramp as DHS employees start missing pay. Republican leaders hope a new vote this week, and pressure from war in Iran, will help spur a breakthrough on DHS funding. - GovExec

• Democrats reject ‘ridiculous’ GOP demand to fund DHS after Iran attack

  Republicans argue that the nation is at greater risk as Middle East tensions explode. - Politico

Sat, Feb 28, 2026:

• US Government shutdown is causing $625 million funding problems for FIFA World Cup - HITC

• DHS shutdown could go on for a while because voters aren’t paying attention-WP

Fri, Feb 27, 2026:

• FEMA taps billions for disasters, warning Democrats of ‘dire’ shutdown impact. The agency sent out more than $5 billion in a single week, considerably shrinking cash for disasters amid the DHS shutdown. - Politico

• DHS funding impasse here to stay as administration ratchets up pressure. Senators want to see changes to ICE and Border Patrol practices as the partial government shutdown shows no signs of ending. - Politico

• White House gives Democrats new DHS funding offer as partial government shutdown drags on - CNBC

• Schumer, Jeffries review White House proposal to end DHS shutdown - Hill

• Partial government shutdown starts to hit TSA workers’ paychecks - CNN

• AFGE Calls on Congress to Pay DHS Employees During Government Shutdown - AFGE

Thurs, Feb 26, 2026:

• The Trump administration is about to release billions in disaster aid. Several blue states won’t be included - CNN

• U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to use funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to exempt and pay over 57,600 employees during the DHS shutdown. - FNN

  • TrillionsWeekly: This use of OBBBA funds is why the shutdown was never anticipated to impact CBP or ICE. But it is impacting TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard and other vital agencies within DHS.

• Government shutdown stalls World Cup security funding as North Texas prepares for first match in 108 days - CBS

• One week into DHS shutdown, dogs in costume parade through the Senate

  Forward momentum in the Senate came from a parade of dogs in Mardi Gras costumes as senators remain stuck on DHS funding. - WP

• FEMA shutdown drags on amid stalemate over reforms to immigration enforcement - News from the States

• FEMA disaster relief fund nearly empty, officials say - Semafor

Wed, Feb 25, 2026:

• Noem threatens to again suspend TSA PreCheck - CNN

• Shutdown talks make little progress as DHS bill stalls in Senate - Politico

• The Homeland Security Department has already been at the center of unprecedented government shutdown history this year, here’s why this recent lone agency impasse could be different from others. - GovExec

• Republicans and Democrats are growing further apart on DHS funding

Tues, Feb 24, 2026:

• Shutdown talks make little progress as DHS bill stalls in Senate. Democratic senators voted against advancing Homeland Security funding for a second time Tuesday. - Politico

• White House plays hardball with Democrats over DHS shutdown - Hill

• Senate GOP fails to advance DHS funding bill (50-45, 60 votes being required)

Mon, Feb 23, 2026:

• Why DHS suddenly reversed course on suspending TSA PreCheck. The Department of Homeland Security has said Global Entry, a program run by Customs and Border Protection, will remain paused. - WP

• Where the DHS shutdown could start to hurt. So far the budget impasse has caused little public outcry. That may soon change. - The Economist

• Impact of US government shutdown spreads - Semafor

• Republicans eye opening for DHS deal as Democrats double down - Hill

• DHS press release said the Global Entry program operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection is being suspended “to reserve limited funds and personnel to mitigate the national security and public safety damage” caused by the shutdown. - DHS

• In a shutdown focused on the unlawful practices of ICE agents, the Washington Post reports a former instructor for ICE says the agency cut “vital classes” from mandatory training for recruits. - WP

Sun, Feb 22, 2026:

• Noem restricts disaster aid over shutdown that targets ICE. FEMA will stop paying for nonemergency activities. - Politico

• DHS reverses course on suspending TSA PreCheck after outcry. The reversal came after discussions with the White House and TSA. DHS will still suspend the Global Entry program as the partial shutdown continues. - WP

• Reversing course, US will keep TSA PreCheck program operational - Reuters

• DHS Sparks Confusion After Suspending Global Entry and Reversing Course on PreCheck. Here’s What We Know - Time

Sat, Feb 21, 2026:

• DHS will suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry as shutdown continues - WP

Fri, Feb 20, 2026:

• Shutdown stalemate deepens as White House, Dems dig in on DHS funding. - Politico
  If last week offered hints of good-faith discussions, this week suggests the negotiations have stalled: Democrats and the White House have exchanged proposals, but neither side appears willing to budge on core sticking points — including requirements for judicial warrants and a proposed ban on face coverings for federal immigration agents.

• Still digging out from the last shutdown, DHS employees brace for more delayed pay. Employees are finding ways to save on commuting and child care costs, while DHS agencies say their operations are suffering. - GovExec

• Disaster relief fund threatened as partial shutdown takes hold. FEMA expected to report $9.6 billion left in fund. - Roll Call

Thurs, Feb 19, 2026:

• Partial shutdown looks to stretch into State of the Union - Semafor

• DHS shutdown talks hit a wall as GOP fumes - The Hill
  Discussions between the White House and Democratic leaders on funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have hit a wall as administration officials publicly slammed the minority party for refusing to make concessions.

• Shutdowns Don’t Usually Stop Disaster Work. FEMA Just Made It Harder.

  The agency canceled some travel to disaster sites, citing a partial government shutdown, according to emails sent to staff. - NYT

Wed, Feb 18, 2026:

• When will the partial govt shutdown start impacting TSA, air travel - Hill

• Trump officials limit FEMA travel to disaster areas amid funding lapse, emails show. It is highly unusual for a government - WP

• Trump administration restricts new FEMA disaster deployments during DHS shutdown - CNN

• Democrats demand ICE reforms on Day 5 of DHS shutdown - AP

• White House says Democratic proposal is ‘unserious’ - AP

• The Department of Homeland Security closure isn’t getting much attention. It should, as problems are already stacking up. - WSJ

• The House’s ‘Odd Couple’ Reasserting Congress’ Power of the Purse

  Reps. Tom Cole and Rosa DeLauro have negotiated government funding bills and maintained a personal friendship despite being in opposing political parties. - NOTUS

Tues, Feb 17, 2026:

• The Disagreement over Judicial and Administrative Warrants for ICE - FactCheck

• White House on DHS funding talks: Parties are still pretty far apart - Politico

• Senate Dems send counteroffer to White House amid DHS shutdown - Hill

• Democrats and White House Trade Offers but Deal to Reopen D.H.S. Remains Elusive. - NYT

• Trump is raising billions in federal funds. That’s not a good thing. - NYT
  People tend to associate democratic erosion with election interference and violent police crackdowns. But there’s a quieter tell that a democracy is endangered: the dissolution of laws that protect public money.

• Trump sought vast budget cuts. Congress granted few. - NYT

  • TrillionsWeekly comment: However, given the track record of this Administration, it is unclear how closely OMB will follow congressional appropriations laws. In fact, OMB has already indicated, they do not regard congressional spending guardrails as binding.

• Republicans worry shutdown will overshadow Trump’s State of the Union - Politico

• Earmarks flood spending bills after a year’s hiatus. Top appropriators win big in nearly $16 billion of earmarked funding for fiscal 2026 - Roll Call

Mon, Feb 16, 2026:

• DHS shuts down without funding deal; House and Senate out all week - Hill

• Trump rages against Gateway tunnel project, threatening to withhold federal assistance. The president also refuted claims that he demanded the renaming of New York’s Penn Station in exchange for federal funds. - Politico

Sun, Feb 15, 2026:

• DHS watchdog warns shutdown could imperil immigration enforcement oversight. The lapse in funding is forcing the department’s inspector general to suspend the majority of its audits and probes. - Politico

• Here’s how the DHS shutdown is impacting air travel, TSA - Hill

• Immigration enforcement will remain largely uninterrupted by the government shutdown - NPR

Sat, Feb 14, 2026:

• T.S.A. Workers Brace for Another Shutdown They Didn’t Cause. As Congress leaves town without funding their department, airport security officers wonder, “How many more times am I going to be able to do this?”- NYT

• 5 things to know about the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security - NPR
  1. It’s hard to know how long the shutdown will last; 2. Immigration enforcement is likely to continue uninterrupted; 3. Air travelers could see delays ... eventually; 4. Federal disaster response will still be available, but may be slowed down; 5. Some Coast Guard missions may end up suspended.

• Much of DHS runs out of money after ICE negotiations falter. Democrats refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal immigration agents. - WP

• DHS funding lapses as Democrats demand ICE reforms - Hill

Fri, Feb 13, 2026:

• Why the DHS shutdown? Watch PBS NewsHour segment: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. - PBS

• DeLauro introduces bill to fund DHS except for ICE, CBP and Secretary’s Office. - Approps / DeLauro

• What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown - AP

• US Homeland Security Department partial shutdown hits on Saturday - Reuters

• Appropriators call for watchdog review of HUD HQ move. Three Democratic senators requested a GAO investigation into HUD’s relocation to Virginia. - Politico

Thurs, Feb 12, 2026:

• On Thursday, the Senate failed to invoke cloture 52-47 (60 being required) to advance HR 7147, Homeland Security appropriations bill; and Democrats objected to advancing a two-week extension of temporary funding. - U.S. Senate

• Lawmakers resign themselves to lengthy DHS shutdown. Negotiations will keep going but Democrats and the White House are far apart. - Politico
  Negotiations between Democrats and White House officials were ongoing as of Thursday evening. Democrats,,, were expected to formally respond to the latest White House offer over the weekend after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries bashed it Thursday...
  Homeland Security shutdown seems certain as funding talks between White House and Democrats stall - AP
  The White House sent its latest proposal late Wednesday, but Trump told reporters on Thursday that some of the Democratic demands would be “very, very hard to approve.”

• With no agreement on DHS funding, Congress leaves town. Bipartisan negotiations on an immigration plan expected to continue over the recess - Roll Call

• White House on Wednesday night sent Congress the legislative text of its immigration enforcement counterproposal. - Politico

Wed, Feb 11, 2026:

• DHS funding deal still far off - Punchbowl News
  Key centrists, including Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) are ruling out a CR entirely, saying the GOP isn’t serious enough about implementing ICE reforms.

• Democrats will block new stopgap to fund Homeland Security - Hill

• CBO Releases Budget and Economic Outlook 2026 to 2036 - CBO

Tues, Feb 10, 2026:

• Dems reject White House counteroffer with 3 days to DHS shutdown - Earlier Monday, Senate GOP leaders were trying to lay the groundwork to pass another short-term DHS funding patch (CR). They were working closely with the White House to convince enough Senate Democrats that negotiations are on the right track as Friday’s shutdown deadline looms. But the joint statement from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries made clear that persuading even a small handful of Democratic senators to support a stopgap measure will be a heavy lift. Punchbowl News

• DHS Budget Talks in Congress May Touch “Sanctuary Cities,” With a Long History - Just Security

• Democratic congressional leaders said in a statement late Monday that a White House counterproposal to the list of demands they transmitted over the weekend “included neither details nor legislative text” and does not address “the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct.” - AP

Mon, Feb 9, 2026:

• Democratic centrists stare down tough vote over DHS funding - Hill

• ‘Complete nonstarter’: Administration allies say judicial warrants a red line for White House in DHS funding talks as shutdown looms - Politico

• The ongoing fight over fiscal 2026 funding for immigration enforcement is threatening millions of dollars in home-state earmarks for disaster preparedness projects. - Roll Call

• DHS faces possible shutdown ahead of congressional recess - Roll Call

• Key Democrat warns DHS headed to a shutdown unless talks pick up - CNN

• Republicans prepare DHS punt. It’s highly unlikely all sides can agree to a full-year Department of Homeland Security revamp by Friday at midnight.
  Senate Republicans expect to begin taking procedural steps Monday to set up consideration of a DHS funding patch… (P)rogress on negotiations could dictate how easy it is to get bipartisan buy-in for another CR. Most Democrats will be reluctant to punt. - Politico

Sun, Feb 8, 2026:

• Fetterman said he doesn’t see a path toward a deal on Homeland Security funding. - Politico

Fri, Feb 6, 2026:

• Appropriators urge White House to send a budget quickly - Punchbowl

• Congress is once again in a crisis. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security will run out one week from today, and Congress is miles from a solution. - Punchbowl

• Congress passes $50 billion foreign aid bill, despite Trump’s cuts in 2025 - NPR

• What Democrats are demanding in exchange for funding ICE. Republicans have criticized Democrats’ proposals as “a ridiculous Christmas list” but say they’re willing to negotiate. - WP

• GOP, Democrats expect DHS shutdown after talks fizzle - The Hill
  Democrats want to prohibit Homeland Security officers from entering private property without a judicial warrant; to bar ICE officers from wearing masks; and to prohibit immigration enforcement operations from being conducted near schools, churches, child care facilities and polling places, among other reforms.

• TrillionsWeekly: There’s been a lot of misreporting. The reality is that Everyone should understand that ICE and CBP received $139 billion in multiyear funding in last summer’s OBBBA law. When funding expires for DHS on Friday, 2/13, ICE and CBP will continue operating. However, the other agencies of DHS including FEMA (disaster aid), TSA (security at airports), Citizenship Services, Coast Guard, Secret Service, Nonprofit Security Grants, and Law Enforcement Training will be without funding. Employees deemed to be “excepted” will have to work without pay. See our list of programs funded under DHS.

Thurs, Feb 5, 2026:

• Another funding extension eyed as partisan immigration standoff deepens.

  Thune says he’s already prepping another short-term DHS funding patch for next week. - Roll Call

• Senators Clash Over Immigration Enforcement, Risking a D.H.S. Shutdown

  With eight days until a deadline to keep the Department of Homeland Security running, bipartisan talks on reining in federal immigration agents’ tactics appeared to sputter before they had even gotten underway. - NYT

• House Appropriations Ranking Democrat DeLauro says “I support funding the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard, Secret Service, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) separately while negotiations continue on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).”

• The House Appropriations Committee issued a press release declaring, “America is back, and so is appropriations funding that delivers on our next golden age.” - House GOP Appropriations Chair Cole

  • TrillionsWeekly: This self-congratulatory rhetoric is misplaced, considering that not a single appropriations bill was enacted when the fiscal year began on October 1, the government was shutdown for 43 days, only 3 of 12 bills were completed by Thanksgiving, no bills were enacted in December, 3 more were enacted in January, 5 more were enacted in early February, and the final bill—which funds disaster assistance, air travel security, cybersecurity, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service—is still not enacted. Moreover, state, local, and individual recipients of the completed bills, have no idea how much of the enacted appropriations money they will actually see—since the Trump Administration’s Budget Director, Russell Vought, claims unfettered authority to impound congressional appropriations in blatant violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974—a law the Supreme Court neglected to enforce last September. Last spring, House Democratic appropriators said more than $400 billion of appropriated funds was being help up. How much of the newly enacted FY 2026 funds will be illegally impounded?

Wed, Feb 4, 2026:

• Standoff over ICE tactics could trigger another partial government shutdown.

  Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to a range of accountability measures to rein in personnel from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies. - WP

• Congress turns to Homeland Security funding clash - Roll Call

Tues, Feb 3, 2026:

• Funding patch for DHS extends through February 13 language negotiated as part of the November funding deal that prevents the Trump administration from using federal funds to carry out any widespread reductions in force. - Bloomberg Law

• 4:50pm: President Trump has signed the spending bill ending the partial government shutdown. However, under the spending law, funding for the Department of Homeland Security is temporary and expires February 13, 2026 (to provide time for negotiations on ICE and CBP protocols). - AP

• More than 20 House Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to reopen the government and keep the Department of Homeland Security funded for two weeks. - Axios

• ​​The House narrowly cleared a $1.2 trillion spending package Tuesday with bipartisan support, effectively ending a four-day-old partial government shutdown despite a lingering battle over immigration enforcement policies. President Donald Trump has promised to sign the five-bill spending package for fiscal 2026 “immediately.” - Roll Call

• Congress ends shutdown, approves $1.2T — and sets up DHS cliff - Politico

• 2:10pm: HOUSE PASSED SPENDING PACKAGE 217-214 clearing it for the President and ending the shutdown (upon the President’s signature).

  • HR 7148 includes 5 appropriation bills ((Financial Services-General Government; National Security-State; Defense; Labor-Health & Human Services-Education; and Transportation-HUD) along with two weeks of temporary funding for the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to allow for negotiations on guardrails for ICE and CBP (Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Customs and Border Protection) operations.

  • House GOP Stmt including text and bill summaries

  • Senate GOP Stmt

  • Senator Murray Calls on Senate Republicans to Work with Democrats on Serious Reforms to Rein in ICE and CBP

• 12:34pm: HOUSE PASSES RULE IN KEY VOTE: House passed the rule 217-215 clearing the way for a vote later today on final passage of the spending package HR 7148 that will end the partial government shutdown (when signed by the President).

  • Politico reports that “Trump’s call for there to be no changes to the package in the House helped quell an effort from hard-line conservatives to attach a partisan elections bill, known as the SAVE Act, to the rule..”

• Why the Shutdown happened - Trillions National Weekly

Mon, Feb 2, 2026:

• OPM removes language on back pay for furloughed feds from shutdown guidance. OPM’s shutdown guidance also added a section stating that performance-based adverse actions against employees are allowed in some cases during a funding lapse. - FNN

• Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday expressed optimism about the House approving a funding package to end the partial government shutdown despite demands from conservatives, saying that he is not asking President Trump to call… Republican holdouts to get the deal over the finish line.

  Johnson said he thinks the House will approve the funding package by Tuesday as he left a meeting with Republicans on the House Rules Committee. - Hill (emphasis added)

• With a partial government shutdown underway, the Office of Personnel Management has updated its shutdown guidance to remove references to the guarantee of back pay for furloughed federal employees once a funding lapse ends, reports FNN.

• House Rules Committee met to establish procedures for considering the FY 2026 funding bill received from the Senate (HR 7148).

• Conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives are threatening to tank a bill to reopen the government unless it includes a controversial voter-ID measure known as the SAVE Act. - CNBC

• Top House Democrats split on funding vote - Politico

• Trump said today in a social media post that “there can be NO CHANGES at this time” to the legislation. “We need to get the Government open, and I hope all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this Bill, and send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY.” - NYT

  • TrillionsWeekly: Whether this will be enough to convince all Republicans to vote for the “rule” and the funding package on Tuesday, remains to be seen. Speaker Johnson can only afford to lose one Republican vote due to the GOP’s extremely slim majority.

• Today could be bumpy in the House - Punchbowl

• GOP can afford to lose only one Republican on procedural vote to advance package - Roll Call

• Jobs report postponed due to government shutdown - Axios - Barron’s

• US House takes up deal to restore government funding, Tuesday vote expected - Reuters

• Here’s What to Know About the Partial Government Shutdown. - NYT

• DOT including FAA are shutdown again - Politico

• IRS to remain open...at least for the time being…. House passage of the funding deal would clinch the roughly $11.7 billion cut to the extra IRS funding that Democrats approved in 2022. - Politico

  • TrillionsWeekly: Cutting billions from IRS funding inevitably reduces tax enforcement—reducing revenues to the Treasury and increasing the public debt.

• Speaker Johnson must sell conservatives on funding deal Democrats pushed for — or risk lengthy government shutdown - CNN

• House GOP searches for votes to reopen government with razor-thin majority.

  House Democrats have indicated privately that they do not plan to support the plan, leaving Republicans to go it alone. - WP

Sun, Feb 1 2026:

• House Dem divisions over DHS funding spill out in private call - Axios

• Air traffic controllers will again work without pay during the shutdown. - Hill

• House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday it will be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote, all but ensuring the partial federal shutdown will drag into the week as Democrats and Republicans debate reining in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations. Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Donald Trump to ensure passage… Johnson faces a daunting challenge ahead, trying to muscle the funding legislation through the House while Democrats are refusing to provide the votes for speedy passage. - AP

Sat, Jan 31, 2026:

• Shutdown expected to last until at least Tuesday as Jeffries says Democrats won’t help pass funding bill - CNN

• Punchbowl News and The Hill report that House Democrats will not provide the votes to swiftly reopen the government. Speaker Johnson had proposed to suspend the rules and pass the measure which requires a 2/3 vote in the House. The House shutdown midnight Friday (Jan. 30) when temporary funding enacted in November expired.

• What to know about the partial government shutdown and its impact - AP

• Most of the federal government shuts down, but a quick end is in sight. House is expected to take up a measure Monday to reopen agencies. Congress still has fight ahead over new restrictions on immigration enforcement. - WP

• What to expect in a partial government shutdown - WSJ

A PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BEGAN FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT FOR AGENCIES FUNDED BY THESE 6 APPROPRIATION BILLS: Defense, FSGG, H-Security, L-HHS-Ed, NatSec-State, and T-HUD.

Fri, Jan 30, 2026:

• House GOP leaders eye bipartisan path for spending package. Passing the shutdown-ending package under suspension of the rules could be tricky. - Politico

• Mike Johnson braces for conservative revolt over ICE funding deal - Axios

• Here’s what federal programs are headed for a shutdown - Politico

• 6:40pm: Senate passed 71-29 HR 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, (which includes Defense, FSGG, L-HHS-Ed, NatSec-State, and T-HUD) has been amended by the Collins Amendment which removes DHS funding and substitutes a 2-week continuing resolution for DHS.

  • GOP Statement

  • Dem Statement

• Agencies prepare for partial shutdown, as lawmakers look to minimize its impact - FNN

• 3:44pm: The Senate has arrived at an agreement on amendments that will receive votes and is proceeding with consideration of the appropriations package.

• Sen. Graham says he is not demanding votes on his amendments today, possibly clearing the way for Senate action later today, depending on whether other “holds” remain on the spending legislation. - Politico

• 12:00pm: Sen. Graham also say he will not release his hold unless he gets a vote requiring notification and private cause of action if the Executive Branch is accessing phone records of Members of Congress and NGOs.

• 11:55am: Sen. Graham says he will not release his hold unless he gets a vote on his cause of action against “sanctuary city” amendment. - Senate Floor

• What is the Arctic Frost provision at the center of Graham’s funding hold? - Hill

• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is holding up the spending deal aimed at avoiding a government shutdown over a House-backed provision that would repeal a law allowing Senators to receive cash payouts if they had phone records seized by former special counsel Jack Smith. - Politico

• Senate aims to vote on funding deal before shutdown deadline. A temporary funding lapse is still expected over the weekend, as Speaker Mike Johnson says the House can consider the agreement early next week… Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), put a hold on the process. Graham has said he wants to protect a measure that allows senators — but not House members — to sue over having their phone records obtained without their knowledge. - WP

Thurs, Jan 29, 2026:

• 11:15pm: Senate adjourned without being able to vote on the tentative deal between Democrats and the White House. Unanimous consent is required to vote on a modified spending package which substitutes a 2-week continuing resolution (temporary funding) for the homeland security portion of the appropriations bill.

• Exuberance over a bipartisan deal struck Thursday afternoon to punt final decisions on Homeland Security funding and pass the rest of this year’s spending bills gave way to the realities of Senate procedure later in the evening. The Senate adjourned late Thursday night without reaching a bipartisan time agreement on votes and a limited list of amendments. The “hotline” process requires all 100 senators to agree not to raise an objection, and that wasn’t happening quickly. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called the agreement “a bad deal” and said he’s got a hold on the measure. - Roll Call

• Speaker Johnson says no expected action for government funding in the House until Monday - Hill

• Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and Democrats say

  The agreement would allow for passage of full-year funding for most federal agencies while extending DHS for two weeks. - Politico
  Even if the Senate quickly passes the deal, a partial government shutdown remains likely to happen early Saturday morning, since the House is in recess and not scheduled to return until Monday.
  Democratic leaders are still in negotiations with the White House over exactly what policy changes they want in return for their support for a Homeland Security funding bill.

• Democrats and Trump strike government funding deal as shutdown looms

  President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats say they’ve agreed to separate DHS funding from a larger spending package after the killing of Alex Pretti. - WP

• Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s office says a bipartisan funding deal has been reached to avoid a government shutdown as Senate GOP leaders try to set up a Thursday vote. - CNN

• Democrats and White House strike deal that would avert government shutdown. The two sides have agreed to separate homeland security funding from the rest of the legislation and fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they debate Democratic demands for curbs on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. - AP
  The potential deal comes after Democrats voted to block legislation containing funding for DHS on Thursday. Trump said in a social media post that “Republicans and Democrats have come together to get the vast majority of the government funded until September,” while extending current funding for Homeland Security. He encouraged members of both parties to cast a “much needed Bipartisan ‘YES’ vote.”

• President Trump, in a rare move, said Thursday he’s working with Democrats on Capitol Hill in a bipartisan manner to avoid an impending government shutdown - Hill

• Senate talks move in direction of splitting off DHS funding bill

  Plan would require the Senate to send the amended version to the House, which doesn’t return until Monday - Roll Call

• Democrats and some Republicans voted to block government funding package in Senate as negotiations continue - AP Cloture on the motion to proceed to the 6-bill funding package failed 45-55 (60 being required).

• Schumer, White House engage in 11th-hour talks on shutdown - Axios

• Floor Statement from Sen. Patty Murray, Ranking Democrat at Senate Appropriations Committee regarding today’s procedural vote: “Democrats have been very clear: we have five bills in this package we would be happy to pass today, on their own. We are all in agreement on funding for child care, cancer research, air traffic controllers, our troops, and more. But we have also been clear that we cannot—and will not—move the DHS bill without real progress on accountability. ICE and CBP are out of control, and we cannot approve that bill until common-sense reforms are included… So while I am very glad to see that the White House and Republicans are now talking with Democrats to finalize a plan to pass the five bills and split off DHS, until that deal is finalized, I will be a no on this vote.”

• Government Shutdown Could Hamstring IRS Amid Tax Season—But ICE Would Still Operate - Forbes

• Senators march into a doomed funding vote - Politico

• Congress lurches toward govt shutdown as leaders swap demands - Hill

• Here’s what would stay open during a partial government shutdown. The federal government could shut down this weekend if Senate Democrats block a spending bill over ICE funding concerns. - WP

• News emerged last night that the White House is considering a short-term deal to avert a government shutdown while negotiations continue with Democrats over reforms to ICE - Politico

• Trump and Schumer Move Toward Possible Deal to Avert a Shutdown

  The president and the top Senate Democrat were discussing an agreement to split off homeland security funding from a broader spending package and negotiate new limits on immigration agents. -NYT

Wed, Jan 28, 2026:

• Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changes - AP

• Here’s what could be affected if the government shuts down again - CNN

• GOP senators open to splitting off DHS funding to pass other key spending bills - Hill

• White House rejects Democrats’ DHS demands to unlock funding bill

  Funding for many Cabinet departments runs out Friday night - Roll Call

• ‘The American People Deserve It’: Democrats Reveal Their 3 Demands to Avoid a Shutdown - Time

• Senate Democrats float DHS changes in shutdown stalemate. Democrats are seeking new limits on the use of warrants and other changes to immigration enforcement. - Politico

• Thune: Government shutdown hinges on talks between White House, Democrats - Hill

• Democrats demand new ICE restrictions as government shutdown looms.

  Senate Democrats released a formal list of demands after a caucus lunch Wednesday. - WP
  The impasse between Republicans and Democrats over the Homeland Security funding bill means a partial government shutdown is likely at the end of the week. Most of the federal government will close Saturday unless Congress passes legislation to keep it open. Democratic senators have said they will not vote for any funding bill unless Republicans agree to remove DHS funding from a larger appropriations package or include new measures to rein in the agency…
  Republicans do not want to split the Homeland Security bill off from five other appropriations bills that the Senate is set to consider as a package. Any changes to the existing measure would require sending it back to the House, which is not scheduled to return until Monday, after a shutdown would start. It’s not clear if the House can pass any revisions, either: The House Freedom Caucus has said it would try to block the funding if it comes back to the House without Homeland Security funding.

• Republicans Gave ICE a Slush Fund. Democrats Want to Limit It.

  The sweeping domestic policy law that Republicans muscled through Congress last year made ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in the country, with no strings attached. - NYT

• Senator Murray Calls on Senate Republicans to Work with Democrats to Quickly Pass Five Funding Bills While Working on Serious Reforms to Rein in ICE and CBP - Approps/Murray

• ICE would still operate in a partial government shutdown. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be able to continue its operations due to $75 billion in funding from a 2025 GOP law. - WP

• Shutdown Threatens to Hit IRS as Trump Touts Massive Tax Refunds - Bloomberg (Trillions comment: the more likely scenario is the Administration will require IRS employees to work without pay.)

• Estimating the costs of troop deployments to U.S. cities - CBO
  Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month.

Tues, Jan 27, 2026:

• Senate Leaders Tiptoe Toward Partial Government Shutdown Over ICE Backlash - Time

• Hints of progress to end Senate funding quagmire - Roll Call

• Republicans are rejecting calls from Democrats to make changes to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill, arguing that avoiding an impending government shutdown is the top priority. - Hill

• Path to averting a shutdown remains elusive as lawmakers debate DHS funding. About half of the federal government would cease full operations if Congress cannot come up with a plan by Friday night. - GovExec

• Freedom Caucus pushes to fund DHS amid funding fight. Members of the group could potentially tank procedural votes required to advance any alternative funding package. - Politico

• DeLauro Statement in Support of Stripping Homeland Security Bill from Senate Funding Package - House Approps/DeLauro

• No shutdown deal in sight. Democrats are demanding changes to the DHS funding bill. Republicans are reluctant to engage. - Politico

• HHS spending bill caught up in ICE debate - STAT

• Spending bill would solidify Trump cuts in DHS oversight. Administration essentially gutted three oversight offices in March. - Roll Call

• SNAP won’t be affected in potential government shutdown (because the Agriculture appropriations bill, which funds SNAP, was enacted in November).

Mon, Jan 26, 2026:

• No off-ramp in sight for DHS-fueled shutdown. Republicans are dangling options that would avoid having to change a massive spending bill. Democrats aren’t biting. - Politico

  • Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporters Monday that she did not favor removing the DHS bill from the six-bill package but that there are ongoing discussions about “further reforms or procedural protections.”

• Democrats Embrace a Shutdown Fight They Wanted to Avoid. After a second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, Democrats say public opinion is on their side and they are willing to risk a backlash to counter what they see as police-state tactics. - NYT

• Schumer: Democrats will speed up non-DHS funding bills ahead of shutdown deadline. - Hill
  “If Leader Thune puts those five bills on the floor this week, we can pass them right away. If not, Republicans will again be responsible for another government shutdown,” Schumer said.

• Homeland Security Spending bill would block DHS from arming long-range drones - Roll Call

• Senate seeks escape from Homeland Security standoff. No obvious compromise in sight on DHS policies. - Roll Call

• Lawmakers exploring options for DHS bill in critical week for government funding talks - CNN

• It is likely that five bills will be completed this week—avoiding a shutdown for the covered agencies: Financial Services-General Government; National Security-State; Defense; Labor-Health & Human Services-Education; and Transportation-HUD. (Click on the bill titles to see which agencies and programs are funded by the respective bills.) However, Democrats are likely to demand additional restraints on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents before they agree to advance the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill. - Trillions National Weekly
  Partial Government Shutdown this Saturday: Unless agreement can be reached on further ICE restraints, a partial government shutdown will occur on January 31, 2026, for agencies funded by the Homeland Security bill. These include: Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE); Customs and Border Protection (CBP); Transportation Security Administration (TSA); U.S. Coast Guard (USCG); United States Secret Service (USSS); Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA); Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); DHS Science and Technology Initiatives (S&T); and Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers.
  As a practical matter, it is important to understand the realities of holding up the Homeland Security bill:

1. ICE will be unaffected because it will still have $75 billion in resources to draw down from direct appropriations to the agency in President Trump’s huge spending and tax cut bill last summer (OBBBA).

2. The Homeland Security appropriations bill, which Senate Democrats are now vowing to hold up, includes some restraints that will not be implemented if they block the bill. Those restraints include restricting the amounts ICE can spend on detention, requiring ICE to spend funds on medical care, and increasing oversight by the Office of Inspector General and the Office for Civil Rights and Liberties which President Trump sought to eliminate last year. While these are not adequate restraints given the outrageous conduct of ICE, they are the most Democrats could get during appropriations negotiations, considering they do not control the House, Senate, or White House.

3. Impact of a Shutdown: A partial Homeland Security shutdown will mean that TSA agents and other DHS employees will be forced to work without pay, FEMA disaster assistance to states and localities could be delayed, and the Coast Guard could be adversely impacted.

Sun, Jan 25, 2026:
‘Enough Is Enough’: Democrats Threaten Shutdown Over ICE Funding - TIME
Schumer calls on GOP to move funding package without DHS money to avoid shutdown - Hill

Sat, Jan 24, 2026:
Senate Democrats will block key funding package, citing aggressive ICE tactics. The announcement from Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) came hours after Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis. “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.” A spokesperson for Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she is “exploring all options” to pass the remaining government funding bills in time. - WP
Senate Democrats threaten partial government shutdown over DHS funding after Minnesota shooting - CNN
Democrats Vow Not to Fund ICE After Shooting, Imperiling Spending Deal. Key Senate Democrats said they would oppose legislation needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident. - NYT
New Minnesota shooting leaves spending package in peril. Democrats say they’ll oppose DHS funding; Jan. 30 is deadline. - Roll Call

Fri, Jan 23, 2026:
Senate cancels Monday vote as shutdown deadline looms. The Senate will instead hold its first vote of the week on Tuesday as Washington prepares for a weekend snowstorm. - Politico

Thurs, Jan 22, 2026:

• House passed H.R. 7147, 220-207, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026.

  • 7 Democrats joined most Republicans in approving the bill. - Politico

  • House passes DHS funding despite Dem opposition over ICE - WP

  • Democrats get ICE protest vote but shy away from shutdown - Bloomberg

• House passed HR 7148, by a widely bipartisan 341-88, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (Defense, Labor-HHS-Ed, T-HUD) - Politico

  • House amends funding package to repeal law allowing senators to sue for $500k, jamming upper chamber - CBS

• This morning, the House barely agreed to a “rule” to begin consideration of the bills 214-213. Approps Chairman Cole Floor remarks on HR 7147, HR 7148. - HOUSE

• President Trump appeared to be hoping for another government shutdown, even as the House and Senate are moving speedily towards completion of FY 2026 appropriation bills. I think we’re going to probably end up in another Democrat shutdown,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business on the sidelines of Davos. - Politico

• House approves spending bills despite many Democrats’ objections to ICE funds - NPR

• Congress Moves to Avoid a Government Shutdown with More Spending in Target-Busting Deal - CATO

• The Senate’s 2028 presidential class lines up against ICE funding - Axios

Wed, Jan 21, 2026:
The House Rules Committee meets today to act on procedures and amendment requests for consideration of HR 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 and H.R. 7147, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026.

• Watch Committee proceedings HERE.

• CBO: H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026

• CBO: H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026

• Lawmakers nearly at the funding finish line. Passing all 12 annual bills would be a stunning feat for lawmakers and leadership in this Congress. - Politico

• What’s in Congress’ sweeping health care deal: PBM reform, telehealth, science funding. The deal rejects Trump’s plans to upend NIH, CDC - STAT

• Again Defying Trump, Congress Proposes Increasing NIH Budget, Maintaining ED. Appropriators have released legislation that wouldn’t defund Education Department programs or slash the National Institutes of Health budget. And it would prohibit the federal government from capping NIH reimbursement rates. - Inside HigherEd

• House Democrats come out en masse against DHS funding bill. ICE is among the agencies included in the full-year spending measure crafted by bipartisan appropriators. - Politico

• On ICE oversight, something is better than nothing - WP Ed. Bd.
  This bipartisan appropriations package would keep ICE funding steady while adding more oversight of its operations. It would reduce the budget for enforcement and removals while adding money for conflict de-escalation training and independent oversight of detention facilities… If this spending compromise fails, Democratic resistance will backfire. If Congress defaults to a CR…none of the restrictions Democrats secured in the compromise will take effect.

• Lawmakers again declined to provide Trump with most of the funding cuts he requested. - GovExec

• More Interior layoffs coming? It’s possible. A congressional ban on the Trump administration laying off more federal workers ends this month. - Politico

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Tues, Jan 20, 2026:
Appropriators today released the final 4 appropriation bills. Below is bill text, report language, earmarks, and bill summaries. The House will vote this week; the Senate next week. In the House, the Homeland Security bill will receive a separate vote.

• Defense
  Text

  Joint Explanatory Statement

  Bill Summary - SenGOP
  Bill Summary - SenDem
  Bill Summary - HseGOP
  Bill Summary - HseDem

• Homeland Security
  Text

  Joint Explanatory Statement

  Bill Summary - SenGOP
  Bill Summary - SenDem
  Bill Summary - HseGOP
  Statement - HseDem

  Congressionally Directed Spending

• Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
  Text

  Joint Explanatory Statement

  Bill Summary - SenGOP
  Bill Summary - SenDem
  Bill Summary - HseGOP
  Bill Summary - HseDem

  Congressionally Directed Spending

• Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
  Text

  Joint Explanatory Statement

  Bill Summary - SenGOP
  Bill Summary - SenDem
  Bill Summary - HseGOP
  Bill Summary - HseDem

  Congressionally Directed Spending

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Congress releases massive funding bill ahead of shutdown deadline as ICE clash looms. The legislation funds key agencies before a Jan. 30 deadline to avert a shutdown, but it excludes the restraints on ICE that many Democrats have said are essential for their votes. - NBC

Congress clinches $1.2T funding deal for DHS, Pentagon, domestic agencies. House and Senate leaders are trying to clear the package before the Jan. 30 shutdown deadline. - Politico
Tacked on to the funding package is bipartisan health care legislation that includes a crackdown on drug intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers, renewals of several public health programs and $4.6 billion in fiscal 2026 funding for community health centers.

Congress moves toward funding government, dodging shutdown. A bipartisan deal would keep the government open after the Jan. 31 deadline. - WP
The $1.2 trillion package would fund the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education, making up the lion’s share of federal funding Congress controls.

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Sun, Jan 18, 2026:
Will the White House follow appropriations laws? - Punchbowl News

Fri, Jan 16, 2026:
APPROPRIATIONS SCHEDULE: The House has four funding bills left: Defense, Transportation-HUD, Labor-HHS-Education and Homeland Security. Appropriators plan to release bipartisan, bicameral bill text this weekend for the first three bills, while DHS remains in flux… The House returns Tuesday to keep working on a path forward, but is set to be gone for the remainder of January when the Senate returns. Senate GOP leaders and appropriators are hoping to take a big swing when they return from next week’s recess and pass their final six bills in a single week. That includes all four bills the House is working on, in addition to the House-passed Financial Services and State-Foreign Operations measures.- Politico

• The latest on the DHS bill: House Republicans sent to the Senate a proposal that would order the department to fund body cameras for immigration enforcement agents — an overture intended to win bipartisan support. A handful of GOP lawmakers are also showing openness to Democrats’ demand that immigration officers get more training on de-escalation. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters “if there were any candidate” for a continuing resolution, it would be the Homeland bill. - Politico

Senate passes more spending bills, but Homeland Security dispute looms - FNN
ICE reshapes the fight to avoid another government shutdown - Axios
Jet fumes are hitting the Senate, which will only have a week when senators get back from recess on Jan. 26 to avoid a (partial) government shutdown. Congress is making real headway on spending bills. But Democrats are demanding ICE reforms in the Department of Homeland Security funding bill, and a bipartisan deal may not be possible by month’s end.

• Trillions commentary: Even if appropriated funds for the Department of Homeland Security run out on January 30, President Trump’s mass deportation effort is funded by mandatory (non-appropriated) funds enacted in last summer’s budget law (OBBBA). Even so, DHS running out of funds at the end of the month is unlikely with the Senate Democratic Leader having been clear that another shutdown is off the table from his perspective.

US Congress says Yes to foreign aid—but will the Trump Administration execute the law? - CGD
Limit on multiyear funding of NIH grants is a sticking point in Senate budget talks. White House is pushing lawmakers to allow a strategy that led to fewer research awards in 2025. - STAT
Scalise aims for final funding deal within days. The House has four funding bills left: Defense, Transportation-HUD, Labor-HHS-Education and Homeland Security. Appropriators plan to release bipartisan, bicameral bill text this weekend for the first three bills, while DHS remains in flux - Politico

Thurs, Jan 15, 2026:
Senate passed, 82-15, the 3-bill minibus (C-J-S, Energy-Water, and Interior-Environment). Click on the bill names for text, report language, and bill summaries. - U.S. Senate
With the discretionary spending caps from the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 now expired, Congress faces few limits on how much to appropriate. - CRFB
Lawmakers left Washington Thursday with a few more government funding bills under their belts but face a rush after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to avert another partial government shutdown and respond to developments abroad. - Roll Call
Congress clears first funding bills since government shutdown ended - Politico
Senate passes more spending bills, but Homeland Security dispute looms. Congress is halfway home in approving government funding for the current budget year that began Oct. 1 after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a three-bill package on Thursday. - WP
Six fiscal 2026 spending bills done, six more to go. Senate clears three-bill package ahead of recess - Roll Call
Democrats have just two weeks to decide whether to filibuster a Department of Homeland Security bill in the Senate, even as funding the rest of the government continues to hum along on a bipartisan basis. - Semafor
Congress is rolling on spending bills, but the toughest fights remain - Hill
Education Department breakup a sticking point in spending talks - Politico
Democrats are trying to stop the department from offloading some of its duties to other agencies by pushing for language blocking such moves to be included in spending legislation to fund the departments of Education, Labor and Health and Human Services… The Trump administration has struck at least seven interagency agreements to transfer the administration of programs like Title I, which supports high-poverty schools, and career and technical education, to the Labor Department and other agencies. The Education Department is weighing more transfers, such as the administration of special education programs and civil rights enforcement.

Wed, Jan 14, 2026:
House passed the 2-bill minibus 341-79 - Financial Services-General Govt and National Security-State. Dem Press Release; GOP Press Release - Appropriations
FSGG / NatlSec-State budget estimate - CBO
House passes 2 more funding bills - Politico
House passes 2-bill package to fund Treasury, State Departments - Hill
Congress is spurning many of Trump’s proposed spending cuts. Months after the partisan clash that led to the longest shutdown in history, lawmakers have agreed on spending bills that look far different from what the president wanted. - NYT

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“(F)urious negotiations are underway” on Homeland Security bill - Politico
“Democratic lawmakers are in no mood to default to a lengthy stopgap funding patch that would maintain the status quo on immigration enforcement and give the Trump administration more leeway to decide how the money is spent…In spite of the major roadblocks to clinching a bipartisan funding deal, there are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are interested in putting at least some fetters on immigration enforcement agencies… Both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate objected to moving forward this week with the DHS funding bill, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said, forcing it to be stripped from a planned multibill package at the 11th hour.”

Tues, Jan 13, 2026:
Schumer dodges on whether Democrats will draw a hard line on ICE funding ahead of January 30 funding deadline. - CNN
House Republican leaders are allowing floor votes this week on several proposed tweaks to the latest government funding package after hard-liners demanded more input. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy secured a vote on an amendment that would cut appeals court funding for the District of Columbia by 20 percent and eliminate the budgets of two judges. The House will also vote on an amendment from Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) that would bar funding for the National Endowment for Democracy, an independent nonprofit that supports projects around the world with the stated goal of promoting democracy. - Politico
Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order - WP

Mon, Jan 12, 2026:
Senate began consideration of the 3-bill minibus: C-J-S; Energy-Water; Interior-Environment, invoking cloture to proceed to the bill by a vote of 80-13. - Senate
Chair Collins remarks; Ranking Dem Murray remarks
FSGG bill: Spending bill would boost court security, public defenders. Request comes amidst heightened concerns about threats facing federal judges, political violence. - Roll Call
Homeland bill: House and Senate appropriators give up on negotiating a compromise Homeland Security bill - CQ Budget

Sun, Jan 11, 2026:
Lawmakers clinch deal on Treasury and State Dept. funding - BGov
Today, the Senate and House Appropriations Committees released text of two bicameral, bipartisan fiscal year appropriations bills: the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) and National Security, Dept. of State (State-Foreign Ops):

• Financial Services and General Government Bill
  Text
  Bill Summary (Sen.GOP)

  Bill Summary (Sen.Dem.)
  Bill Summary (Hse.GOP)
  Bill Summary (Hse.Dem)

  Joint Explanatory Statement
  Earmarks

• National Security–Dept. of State (previously called State-ForeignOps)
  Text
  Bill Summary (Sen.GOP)

  Bill Summary (Sen.Dem.)
  Bill Summary (Hse.GOP)
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Sat, Jan 10, 2026:
ICE shooting sets up budget standoff before shutdown deadline as deeper reforms eyed. ‘We must dismantle it and build it from the ground up again’ - Fortune

Fri, Jan 9, 2026:
Johnson ‘concerned’ ICE shooting will hamper funding negotiations as shutdown looms. The speaker said it’s “a terrible idea” to limit funding for the immigration enforcement agency. - Politico
Trump’s Latest Outrages Could Ramp Up Pressure for Another Government Shutdown - Intelligencer
Energy, enviro spending bills ready for Senate action. The three-bill package must still clear some disagreements over earmarks before final passage. - Politico

Thurs, Jan 8, 2026:
Hill liberals push for shutdown clash over ICE funding but face resistance in Democratic ranks - CNN
House passes three-bill spending package with weeks left to avoid a shutdown. The Senate is expected to take up the “minibus” next week. - Politico
House makes minibus progress, plots next package - Punchbowl

Wed, Jan 7, 2026:
House 1 step closer to passing 3-bill spending package. The minibus is headed toward double-barrel final House votes Thursday before moving to the Senate. - Politico
GOP backlash to Omar earmark slows government-funding bill - Hill
House, Senate lawmakers ignore requested Trump cuts at key science agencies - FedScoop

Tues, Jan 6, 2026:
Top appropriators on Capitol Hill are seeking to tighten limits around how much money DHS can shift between accounts as they finalize funding bills ahead of the Jan. 30 shutdown deadline. Rep. Mark Amodei, the Nevada Republican who chairs the DHS funding panel, told reporters Tuesday night that House and Senate appropriators are crafting their spending measure to make it “harder to make the money mobile.” The effort comes as the Trump administration has spent the past year testing the limits of its power to disregard congressional intent and reprogram billions of dollars between accounts. - Politico
New signs of life for government funding, but a shutdown still looms - Punchbowl
Congress has four weeks to dodge another shutdown. Appropriators are rushing to complete full-year spending bills before the Jan. 30 deadline. - WP
Takeaways from Congress’ latest spending package. Lawmakers are moving to cut funding but rejecting severe reductions sought by the White House to energy and environment programs. - Politico
Major takeaways for federal agencies from the latest bipartisan spending package. The new “minibus” rejects many Trump proposals, from reorganizations to program eliminations. - GovExec

Mon, Jan 5, 2026:

• Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science. Appropriators agree to keep this year’s spending nearly level- Science

• Congress makes first move to avert Jan. 30 shutdown - Axios

• Schumer, Democrats face pressure to wage new shutdown fight - Hill

• In ‘minibus’ spending package, lawmakers reject deep budget cuts, limit agency reorganizations - FNN

• Three-bill funding package released following House-Senate breakthrough. Negotiators have finalized a compromise on the Energy-Water, Commerce-Justice-Science and Interior-Environment spending measures. - Politico

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Sun, Jan 4, 2026:
Health care, funding and more: 5 things to watch when the Senate returns - Hill

Sat, Jan 3, 2026:
A month out, no one looking to repeat October’s historic shutdown. Government funding runs out on Jan. 30. - Politico

Fri, Jan 2, 2026:
How 2026 is shuffling the appropriations panels - Punchbowl News

Mon, Dec 29, 2025:
Clock ticking on government funding deadline as House battles other issues - Hill

Mon, Dec 22, 2025:

• The next shutdown deadline will be here sooner than you think - Politico

• Democrats renew government shutdown threat as tensions flare - Hill

• GOP Proposals in Remaining 9 Funding Bills Fail to Address Cost of Living, Make Communities Less Safe, Permit Continued Corruption - Approps Dems

Sat, Dec 20, 2025:

• House and Senate Republicans announce agreement on FY 2026 spending levels; however, Senate passage of appropriation bills requires agreement by Democrats to meet the 60-vote threshold. The GOP-only spending levels are below FY 2025 levels--accommodating no overall adjustment for inflation. The joint press release by Chairs Cole and Collins strikes a highly partisan tone (in contrast to the Senate’s typical tradition of bipartisan appropriations): “Completing the FY26 process through full-year appropriations will enact America First priorities, replace Biden-era policies, and eliminate the risk of yet another Democrat-manufactured shutdown in January.”

• Trump’s power grab over budget is breaking constitutional design - Atlantic

Fri, Dec 19, 2025:

• Senate Appropriations Republicans released Homeland Security bill without bipartisan agreement: Text | Rpt | Dem-Stmt

Thurs, Dec 18, 2025:

• Schumer says Senate Dems want to avoid a January 31 shutdown - Punchbowl

• Senators leave for the holidays without passing funding package. - Politico
  Senators huddled on the floor Thursday night as they made an eleventh-hour attempt to find a path forward on bringing up a bundle of five bills. But Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper of Colorado announced they would hold up the package after White House budget director Russ Vought’s decision to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research. (The 5 bill package: C-J-S, Defense, Int-Env, L-HHS-Ed, T-HUD)

• Trump will use military housing money for $1,776 Pentagon bonuses - WP

• Judge Order to Restore Federal Disaster Aid Funding Blocked by Administration - DeLauro

Wed, Dec 17, 2025:

• Senate passed 77-20 the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1071). (Note, the authorization bill sets policies but does not provide funding. The Defense Appropriations bill, which provides funding, remains unfinished.)

• Senate passes defense bill that defies Trump and forces sharing of boat strike videos - Politico

• After the shutdown deal, Trump has gone right back to withholding funds and dismantling appropriated entities. - Prospect

Mon, Dec 15, 2025:

• US Shutdown deadline could merge with ACA fight--again - Semafor

• Senators brace for another possible shutdown in January - Hill

Fri, Dec 12, 2025:

• Appropriators speculate about the prospect of a yearlong CR for Homeland Security. - Roll Call

Thurs, Dec 11, 2025:

• Minnesota fraud case is biggest among many multimillion-dollar pandemic scams. Here are the 10 most costly. - CBS

• The draft Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill released by Senate Republicans would cut discretionary funding for IRS operations support by 22 percent, from $4.1 billion to $3.2 billion. This cut would undermine necessary information technology upgrades not just in the current year, but potentially for years to come. - NYU

• Mike Johnson’s new set of promises to squash a House GOP revolt - Axios

Mon, Dec 8, 2025:

• House GOP leaders plan Wednesday NDAA vote. Conservative opposition could complicate a party-line procedural vote beforehand. - Politico

• As NOAA Funding Lags, a Critical Ocean Weather System Nears a Breaking Point. Officials warn that if regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities. - Inside Climate

Sat, Dec 6, 2025:

• Vought says no decision made yet on second round of budget reconciliation for defense spending.
  Vought characterized the use of reconciliation, which added $150 billion in mandatory defense spending, as a “paradigm shift” and “major success” that can unlock funds for Trump’s defense priorities like shipbuilding, Golden Dome and nuclear modernization without needing votes from Democrats.

Fri, Dec 5, 2025:

• Punchbowl News reported that Chairman Cole met Thursday with WH Chief Staff Susie Wiles to discuss the state of play on appropriations. Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), the chair of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee, who was part of the meeting, said, “[The meeting] was purposed in updating [Wiles] and the team on where we stand with the remaining nine bills, negotiations with our Senate counterparts, and a realistic view of what needs to happen between now and end of [January]—with the absolute goal of avoiding a long-term CR or worse, a shutdown.”

Thurs, Dec 4, 2025:

• Lankford is looking to attach legislation targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to the pending Labor-HHS-Ed appropriations bill. - Politico

• Mike Johnson scrambles to pass Pentagon bill (NDAA) as GOP ranks seethe. The must-pass legislation will test Johnson’s ability to command and cajole his conference. - Politico

• Dems call on McMahon to Reverse Illegal Moves to Weaken Education Support - Approps

Tues, Dec 2, 2025:

• In a December 1st letter to OMB Director Russell Vought (who also authored “Project 2025”), House Budget Committee Ranking Democrat Brandan Boyle said: “At your behest, OMB has disregarded Congress’ power of the purse, including the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA). The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has already found eight instances of the Administration disregarding Congressional spending decisions and violating the ICA. This includes impounding lifesaving National Institutes of Health research grants… GAO also found that the Administration illegally withheld funds for Head Start, infrastructure, and public-school improvements, further straining the economy and undermining programs families count on…
  In addition, a legal requirement in our jurisdiction…requires OMB to publicly post information on all apportionment decisions. OMB illegally hid this information and violated the law. Today, it only partially posts this required information, even after a court order…
  Likewise, the Administration has spent money without Congressional appropriations. During the shutdown, the Administration engaged in non-excepted activities [illegal activities during a shutdown] to RIF federal employees, produced messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown, and promulgated regulations… [bracketed explanation added]
  If you fail to appear before this Committee before the end of the year, this will be the only Administration in the last 50 years to not send the OMB Director.” Link to related press release.

Mon, Dec 1, 2025:

• Citizens for Ethics calls for congressional leadership to investigate potential violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act - CREW

• Thune casts doubt on passing government funding bills before Christmas. Lawmakers had hoped to advance more appropriations measures this month. - Politico

• Takeaways from the Senate Energy-Water spending bill. The Republican-drafted legislation proposes cuts to clean energy and funding increases for water programs. - Politico E&E

• Using Up the Post-Shutdown Breathing Room - Bloomberg

• Appropriations Outlook Ahead Of Jan. 30, 2026, Continuing Resolution Deadline - H&K

Sun, Nov 30, 2025:

• Congress races against 3-week deadline to tackle massive year-end legislative agenda. Obamacare subsidies, defense authorization and government funding bills top lawmakers’ priority list - Fox

Tues, Nov 25, 2025:

• As judges face more threats, only the Supreme Court gets new security funds - WP

• Senate Republicans pitch spending cuts in energy and water bill - The Hill

• Senate unveils spending bill that cuts clean energy; House and Senate appropriators will work on reconciling their versions of the fiscal 2026 Energy-Water bill in the coming weeks. - Politico

Mon, Nov 24, 2025:

• Senate Approps Republicans released Energy-Water bill without bipartisan agreement: Text | Rpt | Dem Stmt

• Senate Approps Republicans released Financial Services General Govt bill without bipartisan agreement: Text | Rpt | Dem Stmt

Fri, Nov 21:

• How to End the Shadow Budget and Protect Congress’s Power of the Purse - Just Security

• Appropriators bullish about Interior-Environment bill despite obstacles - Politico

• Senate appropriators aim to unveil unreleased spending bills. Energy-Water bill is considered the most likely to emerge. - Roll Call

Thurs, Nov 20:

• Little sign of spending progress as top appropriators meet. Appropriators remain at odds over size, shape of next spending package. - Roll Call

• Statement on Four Corners Meeting - Approps/DeLauro

• Letter to HUD Secretary to Prevent 170,000 People from Losing Homes in Dead of Winter - Approps/DeLauro and Clyburn

Wed, Nov 19:
Amid Appropriations Season, the Bipartisan Earmark Party Is in Full Swing - NTU

Tues, Nov 18:
Statement on Trump Admin. renewed attemps to dismantle Dept. of Education - Approps/DeLauro

Mon, Nov 17:

• Statement on Trump Administration Plan to Slash and Delay Funding for Housing Assistance - Approps/DeLauro

• Key Bridge rebuild could top out at $5.2B, memo shows. The cost of rebuilding the collapsed Baltimore bridge has more than doubled. - Politico

• SNAP is back, but trust is broken. - TNR

• Appropriations back on track? CQ podcast

Sun, Nov 16:

• FAA lifts order slashing flights, allowing airlines to resume their regular schedules - AP

• How the government shutdown hurt military personnel - The Hill

Sat, Nov 15:

• Food stamps are back, but millions will soon lose benefits permanently. - Politico

• The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over. Here’s what you need to know - NPR

• The government shutdown is over. The air traffic controller shortage is not - CNBC

Fri, Nov. 14:

• The Federal Shutdown Is Over. What Comes Next for Schools? - Education Week

• Major spending package planned for Senate floor faces doubts. Package could include Defense, HHS spending. - Roll Call

• Federal Shutdown is Over, but January Deadline Looms: What it Means for Local Leaders - NLC

• Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control. He Shouldn’t Have That Power - NYT

• Tallying up the cost of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history - NPR

• You can end a shutdown overnight — but you can’t reopen a government that fast - AP

• SNAP Interruption Leaves Recipients Shaken - NYT

• Bipartisan group of senators calls for release of funding for low-income heating - Hill

• DOT lowers flight cuts to 3 percent, post-shutdown - Politico

• Another shutdown in January? Some lawmakers are already bracing for it - Hill

• Record-breaking U.S. government shutdown will cast long shadow - SEMAFOR

Thurs, Nov. 13:

• Federal workers to receive backpay by Nov. 19 - AP

• What to Know as the Government Reopens - WSJ

• The government shutdown is over, but things are not back to normal - CNN

• Special education staff may get their jobs back. But for how long? - NPR

• The Shutdown’s Unseen Victims - Bloomberg

• The Senate GOP’s boneheaded response to Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 probe. House Republicans wisely object to a scandalous $500,000 payday for their counterparts. - WP

• The government shutdown is over, but not everything is back to normal - NPR

• Transportation Department freezes flight cuts at 6% - WP

• Trump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAP. The USDA employee warned that the shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the federal government to put food on the table. - WP

• States scramble to send full SNAP food benefits to millions after govt shutdown ends - AP

• End of government shutdown won’t stop SNAP mayhem - Hill

• Timing of heating assistance funds’ release to states is uncertain as temperatures drop - AP

• Federal offices reopen as the government shutdown ends - AP

• Federal Employees Return to Work as Government Reopens - NYT

• Airlines optimistic about quick recovery ahead of Thanksgiving once FAA ends flight cuts - AP

• What the end of the government shutdown means for you. Federal employees are returning to work. Museums are reopening. Food assistance will resume. Flight delays could ease — though not immediately. - WP

• The next shutdown threat is around the corner. Most of the federal government will continue running on autopilot through Jan. 30, setting up another showdown. - Politico

• The Office of Personnel Management posted on X that federal workers are expected to be back to the grind on Thursday, with Trump signing a measure ending the record 43-day shutdown. - AP

Wed, Nov. 12 - Shutdown Ended on Day 43

• 10:36pm: President Trump has signed the bill, ending the government shutdown. - AP

• Today in the House of Representatives:

  • 6:22pm: House passed a procedural measure 213-209 to enable consideration of the shutdown-ending spending bill.

  • 8:22pm: House this evening passed 222-209 the Senate-passed spending bill to end the shutdown, clearing the bill for the President.
    The bill enacts 3-of-12 full-year appropriation bills for 2026 (Ag-Rural-FDA, MilCon-VA, Leg.Br.), provides temporary funding through Jan. 30, 2026 for agencies funded by the 9 unfinished bills, provides backpay for federal employees, and reverses layoffs announced during the shutdown. Another shutdown could occur if the remaining 9 bills are not completed by January 30, 2026.
    Last night, the House GOP leadership (at the Rules Committee) declined to allow Democrats to offer an amendment during today’s debate to extend enhanced ACA health insurance subsidies which expire at year’s end.

• Shutdown’s End Will Kick Off Long Process of Rebooting US Government - Bloomberg
  --Restarting the federal bureaucracy could take days or more than a week before normal operations resume, with payroll systems needing to be updated and backlogs cleared.
  --Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saying flight curbs will be lifted within a week after the government reopens.
  --Furloughed workers will receive back pay, but it could take time to recompute paychecks, with some workers potentially waiting weeks or even months to be made completely whole.
  

• Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will vote next week to repeal a provision slipped into the bill to end the shutdown that would allow senators to sue the government for potentially millions of dollars if their data is obtained without their notification. - NBC

• Trump admin will pay full SNAP benefits ‘within 24 hours’ after shutdown ends - Politico

• After a 54-day break, the House is expected to vote on the Senate-passed spending deal. Approval would clear it for President Trump’s signature. - NYT

• House to vote on reopening government after 7-week recess; expected to narrowly pass - WP

• Bill would fund government into January after record-length impasse, while provision on potential $500,000 payouts to senators angers some lawmakers - WSJ

• US House to vote on deal to end longest government shutdown in history - Reuters

• Senate payouts unnerve some in House GOP ahead of shutdown vote - Roll Call

• Provision Senate Republicans included in the funding bill that would deliver millions in taxpayer-funded payouts to 8 Senators investigated for role in the Jan 6 insurrection - Approps/DeLauro