House Democrats poised to rebel against Schumer spending deal, extend shutdown

Home Democrats are poised to revolt towards Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer’s spending cope with the White Home, Fox Information Digital is informed, an act that would lengthen the continuing partial authorities shutdown.

Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., made it clear to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that Republicans’ plan to fast-track the laws would fail Monday night time, 4 Republican Occasion sources informed Fox Information Digital.

Which means Johnson must rely closely on his razor-thin Republican majority within the Home of Representatives to move the invoice by means of a number of procedural hurdles earlier than a ultimate vote can happen, most likely not till Tuesday on the earliest.

The federal authorities has been in a partial shutdown for the reason that early hours of Saturday morning after Congress failed to succeed in a compromise on the annual price range by the tip of January 30.

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Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer communicate to reporters after assembly with President Donald Trump on the White Home about funding laws to forestall a authorities shutdown on September 29. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)

Some elements of the federal government have already been funded, however spending for the Departments of Struggle, Transportation (DOT), Well being and Human Companies (HHS), and the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS), amongst others, are actually in query.

Home Democrats don’t really feel certain by the deal their Senate counterparts struck with President Donald Trump’s White Home, the sources informed Fox Information Digital.

The sources stated Home Democrats are additionally pissed off that Schumer put them able the place they had been anticipated to simply accept the deal.

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“Democratic division is driving one other authorities shutdown,” a Republican within the Home of Representatives informed Fox Information Digital.

But it surely is also troublesome for Republican leaders within the Home of Representatives to collect all the mandatory votes. A number of Republicans have already expressed considerations in regards to the compromise that can require them to barter with Democrats on curbing Trump’s immigration insurance policies, whereas others like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., pushing their very own priorities to be included in trade for his or her help.

Luna informed Fox Information Digital that she wouldn’t help the laws if it didn’t embrace an unrelated measure that might require proof of citizenship within the voter registration course of, a separate however extensively accepted Republican Occasion invoice.

Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks out of the chamber to talk to reporters after the ultimate vote to finish the longest authorities shutdown in historical past, on the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photograph)

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Johnson informed Home Republicans in a lawmakers-only name Friday that he hoped to move the laws beneath a “suspension of the principles,” which might pace up the payments in trade for elevating the brink for passage from a easy majority of the chamber to two-thirds.

However now the Home Guidelines Committee, the ultimate gatekeeper earlier than most Home-wide votes, will talk about the laws Monday afternoon.

Then it should survive a Home-wide “guidelines vote,” a procedural take a look at vote that usually falls alongside celebration strains, earlier than ultimate passage is voted on.

Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., indicated earlier on Saturday to Fox Information Dwell host Aishah Hasnie that he anticipated Jeffries to go rogue towards Schumer.

“We will not belief that the minority chief can get his members to do the appropriate factor. That is the issue,” Emmer informed Hasnie.

The deal handed by the Senate on Friday mixed 5 spending payments already handed by the Home of Representatives, whereas leaving out a bipartisan plan to fund DHS.

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As a substitute, DHS could be funded at present ranges for 2 weeks whereas Democrats and Republicans may negotiate a longer-term invoice that might additionally rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Democrats demanded that within the wake of the killing of two U.S. residents in Minneapolis by federal regulation enforcement throughout anti-ICE demonstrations there.

A Border Patrol member pepper sprays observers after getting right into a automobile accident on Blaisdell Avenue on January 21, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Photographs)

However Jeffries made no guarantees in regards to the deal after it handed the Senate on Friday, saying in a public assertion: “The Home Democratic Caucus will assessment the Senate-passed spending laws on its deserves after which resolve methods to proceed legislatively.”

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Failure to implement the plan rapidly dangers seeing paychecks for army and airport employees curtailed or suspended, and funding for pure catastrophe administration and federal well being care put into query.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Jeffries, Schumer and Johnson’s workplaces for additional remark however didn’t instantly hear again.