But what's left unfinished — funding for the Department of Homeland Security — will be a doozy, with partisan tensions over President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda threatening another lapse for the embattled department that also includes TSA, FEMA and other crucial agencies...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/congress-ends-shutdown-00762482
The speaker is hoping to quell an internal Republican revolt in order to pass the funding package Tuesday.
There will still be a partial shutdown through the weekend, at least...
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/30/congress/theyve-got-a-deal-00758107
The South Carolina Republican said he will drop his blockade in exchange for future votes...
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/30/congress/lindsey-graham-amendments-funding-00757533
"Republicans are plunging America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill and risking America's healthcare," top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday evening, as it became clear a shutdown was inevitable…
The White House has responded to the shutdown threat by announcing plans to fire federal workers en masse if funding lapses. "When you shut it down, you have to do layoffs, so we'd be laying off a lot of people," Donald Trump said earlier on Tuesday, adding: "They're going to be Democrats."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/us-government-shuts-down
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives had in the morning approved a bill to extend government funding through 21 November on a near party-line vote, but Democrats swiftly blocked it in the Senate, where most legislation must receive at least some bipartisan support. Republicans, in turn, rejected a Democratic proposal to extend funding through October while preventing cuts to healthcare programs, setting up a standoff that could see federal agencies shutter and workers sent home just nine months into Donald Trump's term.
"Senators will have to choose: to stand with Donald Trump and keep the same lousy status quo and cause the Trump healthcare shutdown, or stand with the American people, protect their healthcare, and keep the government functioning," the top Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said before the votes...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/government-shutdown-democrats-healthcare
Republicans say they're considering a short-term funding bill to keep the government afloat for seven weeks. But they'll need bipartisan votes to pass it...
Continually running the government on stopgaps is part of White House budget director Russ Vought's strategy to shrink federal spending as he roots for the government funding process to be "less bipartisan."
Those kick-the-can funding bills give the White House more leeway to shift cash while depriving Democrats of any increases in non-defense funding and GOP defense hawks the military budget increases they seek. Then, using party-line measures like the domestic-policy megabill and the $9 billion clawbacks package Congress cleared this summer, Republicans can add or subtract funding without needing to rely on the votes of Senate Democrats…
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/congress-factions-government-shutdown-trump-00548818
"The appropriations process has to be less bipartisan," Vought told reporters last week at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
That advice confronts a central dilemma: While Republicans have the power to push partisan bills through the House, where legislation needs only a simple majority, they'll have a much tougher time in the Senate, where the minority Democrats have the power of the filibuster. That means any spending bill will need 60 votes to pass through the upper chamber, necessitating the bipartisan buy-in Vought renounced…
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5412199-jeffries-gop-partisan-spending-bills-shutdown/
Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn't come at a worse time, say experts…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/trump-republican-tax-bill
"We oppose creating a $20 billion tax credit voucher scheme and allowing 529 accounts to be used for home schooling," Marc Egan, the director of government relations for the union, wrote in a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee…
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5302600-school-vouchers-school-choice-gop-budget-bill/
Though Donald Trump has called climate spending a "waste" of money, the data – published by the industry group Clean Energy Buyers Association (Ceba) on Thursday – provides evidence that rescinding them would actually increase expenses for ordinary Americans in red and blue districts alike. The rollback would increase the price of electricity and gas, the report found. And it would lead to job losses and "economic slowdown", it says...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/green-tax-credits-utility-bills-republicans
"I kept saying that there's going to be a lot of things that start four years out," Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said this week. "That's kind of a violation of integrity with the American people, pretending that you're not hurting them as much as you really are. We're going to make sure we draw a lot of attention to that."
