Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks through National Statuary Hall to his daily news conference on the government shutdown in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Nov. 4, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Senate Democrats walked away from a bipartisan deal to fully fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2026 amid fallout over President Donald Trump's surge of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis.
Federal officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in the Midwest city during separate demonstrations against Trump's immigration crackdown. In response, Democrats threatened to hold up a massive federal funding bill that also includes dollars for the departments of War, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation and others unless funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were stripped out.
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The deal reached would fund all but DHS through Sept. 30, while funding DHS with a two-week extension of current spending levels to give Congress time to hash out a compromise that would include stricter guardrails on immigration enforcement agencies under the department's purview.
U.S. Capitol Building at sunset on Jan. 30, 2025. (Emma Woodhead/Fox News Digital)
Whether the legislation will survive the House Rules Committee remains to be seen.
Three members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus — Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Morgan Griffith, R-Va. — sit on the panel. Roy and Griffith have not said how they feel about the deal.
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But Norman told Fox News Digital after details emerged on Thursday, "THERE IS NO RATIONAL REASON TO REMOVE DHS FROM THE APPROVAL PROCESS."
Norman accused Democrats of trying to "demonize" and "bludgeon" DHS, adding, "IF THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN, ‘DO IT’!!"
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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