House to return looking to avoid prolonged partial funding lapse

Johnson expressed assurance successful a brace of interviews Sunday that the House volition walk the backing bundle to reopen the authorities by Tuesday, contempt a fig of hurdles ahead. 

"We person a logistical situation of getting everyone successful town," Johnson said Sunday connected "Meet the Press." "And due to the fact that of the speech I had with Hakeem Jeffries, I cognize that we've got to walk a regularisation and astir apt bash this mostly connected our own."

Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said "Republicans are going to bash the liable happening and money the government." But helium acknowledged that helium whitethorn look immoderate absorption among members of his ain enactment arsenic well.

"I person a batch of conversations to person with idiosyncratic Republican members implicit the adjacent 24 hours oregon so," Johnson said connected "Fox News Sunday."

Still, Johnson added, "we'll get each this done by Tuesday, I'm convinced."

"I don't recognize wherefore anybody would person a occupation with this," Johnson said, noting that the bulk of the backing bundle has already passed the House. 

Johnson said "we're going to bash it again," calling the support a "formality astatine this point."

The Trump administration's attack to migration enforcement has been the absorption of this backing fight. 

Since the longest shutdown successful U.S. past past fall, lawmakers person been moving to walk idiosyncratic spending bills to money national agencies done September 2026. Congress has passed six of those bills already, and they person been signed by the president. The different six are the absorption of the existent backing fight.

While the backing measures had been connected way to walk up of the deadline earlier this month, the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by national migration agents successful Minneapolis changed things for Democrats. They came retired fiercely against backing for DHS without further reforms, and successful the Senate, Democrats pledged not to supply the votes to determination guardant connected the backing bundle unless the DHS wealth was stripped out.

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House Democrats conveyed to GOP enactment implicit the play that they wouldn't supply the votes to assistance walk the backing bundle nether suspension of the rules — a maneuver that would accelerated way the legislation's passage. 

"We request a afloat and implicit debate," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said connected MSNOW Saturday. "And what I've made wide to House Republicans is that they cannot simply determination guardant with authorities taking a 'my mode oregon the highway' approach."

House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke Saturday, 2 sources acquainted with the speech confirmed to CBS News.

Johnson acknowledged connected NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that aft his telephone with Jeffries, helium expects Republicans volition "probably bash this mostly connected our own."

The dynamic means Johnson volition person to shepherd the authorities done the Rules Committee earlier it goes to the level for a elemental bulk vote. GOP leaders, with a constrictive bulk successful the chamber, indispensable person adjacent unanimous enactment among Republicans — and could inactive look hurdles from conservatives connected the Rules Committee and otherwise. 

With the House backmost successful Washington, the bundle volition archetypal spell to the Rules Committee, which is acceptable to conscionable Monday day to see the authorities aft Democrats informed GOP enactment that they would not assistance fast-track the bill. 

Though the Rules Committee way requires a elemental bulk for transition connected the House floor, the authorities volition request to walk respective procedural hurdles wherever votes are typically on party-lines. 

First, it's unclear whether the backing bundle tin wide the Rules Committee, wherever astatine slightest 1 Republican, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, has said helium has his ain demands for DHS funding. Second, if it advances retired of the committee, determination are questions astir whether Johnson tin support his enactment agreed successful a procedural ballot earlier last passage. 

On the floor, Johnson tin lone spend to suffer 2 votes if each members are contiguous and voting. Attendance has already created issues for Republicans this year. 

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, has said that she'll withhold her enactment unless authorities that would necessitate Americans to amusement impervious of citizenship successful idiosyncratic to registry to ballot successful national elections is attached. 

Any changes to the bundle would necessitate sending it backmost to the Senate, prolonging the shutdown. 

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