Update: Partial Government Shutdown
Departments shutdown through at least Tuesday: Defense, Education, HHS, Homeland Security, HUD, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury and multiple independent agencies
The Senate early Friday evening passed (71-29) HR 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 which includes funding through September 30 2026 for agencies funded by five of the six unfinished appropriation bills: (1) Defense, (2) Financial Services-General Govt, (3) Labor-HHS-Education, (4) NatSec-State, and (5) Transportation-HUD.
The Senate-passed funding package also includes a Collins Amendment that removes Homeland Security funding—the 6th unfinished bill—and substitutes a 2-week continuing resolution for Homeland Security through February 13, 2026—in order to provide time to negotiate potential limitations on ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) operations in the wake of the shootings in Minnesota.
However, since HR 7148 has now been amended by the Senate, it needs to be
re-passed by the House of Representatives. In the meantime, and until House passage and presidential approval of HR 7148, a partial government shutdown is in effect for departments and agencies funded by the six unfinished bills.
Departments subject to the shutdown include Defense, Education, Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing & Urban Development, Labor, State, Transportation, and Treasury, as well as the Judiciary and multiple independent agencies.
Despite the shutdown, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection) operations will continue due to large multiyear appropriations to the two agencies enacted in last summer’s OBBBA budget law.
Recent reporting suggests that House Democrats were split on a Sunday conference call on whether to support suspending the rules (which requires a two-thirds House vote) to swiftly pass the funding measure on Monday.
Therefore, House Republicans will need to first pass a “rule” to advance the legislation. The House Rules Committee meets Monday at 4pm. Speaker Johnson will then have to muster nearly all House Republicans, given their slim majority, to adopt the rule in order to reach a vote on the funding package. The earliest a vote could occur on the funding package is Tuesday.
It is unclear, at this time, whether Johnson can get the support of nearly all Republicans to adopt a rule for the funding package. Some in the Republican Freedom Caucus have expressed opposition to the funding package because it provides only temporary 2-week funding for Homeland Security. Johnson is relying on pressure from the White House to advance the 5-bill FY 2026 funding package and the 2-week funding for DHS.
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Our full Trillions National Weekly Newsletter will be delivered Monday evening with updates on the shutdown.
