Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hold a joint news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 8, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images)
Before that, the previous shutdown lasted 34 days, from December 2018 to January 2019, and was triggered over President Donald Trump's proposed border wall. At the time, Schumer and then-incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to give Trump more money to build his wall along the Southern border.
He walked away from that then-record-shattering shutdown without the funding.
This current shutdown, which just entered its second day on Sunday, is an outlier of sorts. Trump and Schumer agreed on a funding deal that stripped out the controversial Department of Homeland Security spending bill and replaced it with a short-term, two-week funding extension.
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The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
That deal advanced out of the Senate on Friday, despite grumbling from both sides of the aisle.
Its survival in the House is an open question, given heavy resistance among House Republicans who are demanding some policy wins, like the inclusion of voter ID legislation into the bill.
Amanda covers the intersection of business and politics for Fox News Digital.
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