House sends bill ending government shutdown to Trump’s desk after Dems buck Jeffries in final vote

The Home of Representatives on Tuesday handed a federal funding invoice that goals to finish the partial authorities shutdown, ending the four-day standoff shortly after the laws reached President Donald Trump’s desk.

The funding invoice is a compromise between Senate Democrats and the White Home that may fund about 97% of the federal authorities by the top of 2026.

Trump performed an integral position in crafting the brand new deal and suppressing a subsequent rebellion by conservative lawmakers to get it throughout the end line.

Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries signaled his sturdy opposition to the plan, regardless of his Senate counterpart’s position in its creation. However a number of Democrats in the end pushed again towards his considerations and voted in favor.

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The Home of Representatives despatched a invoice to finish the federal government shutdown to President Donald Trump’s desk after a number of Democrats ignored Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries’ warnings that the left wouldn’t help it. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures; Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Pictures)

Democrats initially walked away from a bipartisan settlement within the Home of Representatives to defund the federal authorities by the top of the 2026 finances yr on September 30. They rebelled towards a invoice to fund the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) over Trump’s dealing with of the unrest in Minneapolis.

Their mutiny left roughly 78% of the federal government’s annual funding at stake, because the DHS invoice was lumped right into a broader bundle that licensed budgets for the Departments of Conflict, Labor, Well being and Human Providers (HHS), Transportation, Housing and City Growth (HUD), and Training.

The deal between Senate Democrats and the White Home would absolutely fund the remaining areas, whereas extending present DHS funding ranges solely till Feb. 13, to offer Democrats and Republicans time to hammer out a bipartisan, longer-term plan.

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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., advised reporters Tuesday that the laws would cross, although he hinted at some dissatisfaction with how negotiations have been progressing.

“This isn’t my most well-liked route. I needed to maintain all six payments collectively,” Johnson mentioned. “However hear, the president agreed with Schumer that they might separate Homeland, and we are going to do this, and we are going to cope with that. … The Republicans are going to do the accountable factor.”

The Senate’s federal funding deal survived a significant hurdle late Tuesday morning, clearing a Home-wide “rule vote” so lawmakers might debate the measure and arrange a vote on last approval early within the afternoon.

Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks out to talk to reporters on the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 12, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Picture)

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It comes after some conservatives within the Home of Representatives introduced they might again off their threats to let the laws lapse in the course of the rule vote if the laws wasn’t accompanied by an unrelated election integrity invoice, the SAVE America Act.

Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., warned they might not help the invoice in the course of the vote on the rule with out the SAVE America Act connected, however reversed course Monday night after chatting with the White Home.

“To any extent further, with the present settlement that we now have, and with the discussions, we are going to each be a sure to the rule,” Luna mentioned. “There’s something like a standing filibuster that may successfully enable Senator Thune to place voter ID on the ground of the Senate. We’re listening to that that is going effectively, and he is contemplating that … so we’re very comfortable about that.”

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The SAVE America Act would require voter identification on the polls and create a brand new proof of citizenship mandate within the voter registration course of.

However Luna’s insistence that Thune had embraced the standing filibuster, a little-known and outdated legislative maneuver, doesn’t seem like fully correct.

Nonetheless, Thune mentioned there have been Republicans within the Senate who “expressed curiosity in that, so we will have a dialog about it. However no commitments have been made.”

He famous that forcing the standing filibuster to attempt to cross the SAVE America Act, or one in every of its variations coming from the Home of Representatives, can be an enormous time dedication within the Senate.

Senate Majority Chief John Thune speaks at a information convention with different members of the Senate Republican management after a coverage luncheon in Washington, October 28, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Pictures)

Doing this may lock the ground time indefinitely, Thune mentioned. This is because of guidelines that assure that every senator will get a most of two speeches on a invoice. That, mixed with the clock reset by amendments to the invoice, means the Senate could possibly be successfully paralyzed for months as Republicans undermine Democratic opposition.

“There’s all the time a chance value,” Thune mentioned.

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“Effectively, anytime an modification is obtainable, and that modification is tabled, the clock resets,” he continued. “The 2-speech rule kicks in once more. So as an instance, you already know, each Democratic enator talks for 2 hours. That is 940 hours on the ground.”

It isn’t instantly clear when Trump will signal the funding invoice, however the White Home is predicted to behave rapidly. The longest authorities shutdown in historical past, lasting 43 days, simply led to November.