Government shutdown - February edition

[Anonymous]

Seems like the hopes of a quick resolution for government funding (with the exception of DHS) is hitting a snag in the House. House minority leader Jeffries and some hardline GOP are saying they won't vote for the bill-splitting proposal.

Very frustrating - we could have full fiscal year funding for almost the entire government and then laser focus on DHS, but somehow folks are still allergic to compromise.

I emailed my Rep this morning. I believe the Republican House call already happened and Dems are supposed to have theirs at 5 pm.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/politics/government-funding-bill-shutdown-fears

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like the hopes of a quick resolution for government funding (with the exception of DHS) is hitting a snag in the House. House minority leader Jeffries and some hardline GOP are saying they won't vote for the bill-splitting proposal.

Very frustrating - we could have full fiscal year funding for almost the entire government and then laser focus on DHS, but somehow folks are still allergic to compromise.

I emailed my Rep this morning. I believe the Republican House call already happened and Dems are supposed to have theirs at 5 pm.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/politics/government-funding-bill-shutdown-fears

Graham won’t pass until we guarantee that he can grift.

[Anonymous]

Great. I’m good with DHS not getting a dime of funding for the next 3 years. America survived decades with no DHS. We will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great. I’m good with DHS not getting a dime of funding for the next 3 years. America survived decades with no DHS. We will be fine.

This is the vote to split out funding for DHS. There are five other agencies that won't be funded if they don't approve this. I don't care about DHS either but there's a bigger picture here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great. I’m good with DHS not getting a dime of funding for the next 3 years. America survived decades with no DHS. We will be fine.

This is the vote to split out funding for DHS. There are five other agencies that won't be funded if they don't approve this. I don't care about DHS either but there's a bigger picture here.

Yes, I know. I work at one of those other agencies!

[Anonymous]

Trump called Schumer and that shows Trump is scared and doesn't want another govt. shutdown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great. I’m good with DHS not getting a dime of funding for the next 3 years. America survived decades with no DHS. We will be fine.

This is the vote to split out funding for DHS. There are five other agencies that won't be funded if they don't approve this. I don't care about DHS either but there's a bigger picture here.

Yes. The bigger picture is that Trump has been a failure as the head of the executive branch. Giving him more money to steal is not going to improve his performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great. I’m good with DHS not getting a dime of funding for the next 3 years. America survived decades with no DHS. We will be fine.

This is the vote to split out funding for DHS. There are five other agencies that won't be funded if they don't approve this. I don't care about DHS either but there's a bigger picture here.

Yes, I know. I work at one of those other agencies!

Me too

[Anonymous]

We’ll be back to work on Tuesday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump called Schumer and that shows Trump is scared and doesn't want another govt. shutdown.

Yeah, and how long do you think that lasts until they start doing the math + Trump doesn't like the press making him look weak? I'll tell you - not long.

And then were in another several week shutdown with everyone dug in, Democrats get zip at the end.

[Anonymous]

This is not how it works they already had a chance to vote against this when the bill passed before. It shouldn't be allowed to change already passed bills to fund the govt. I bet if Democrats ever get power Republicans will do the same thing it's going to be a problem

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ll be back to work on Tuesday.

I hope so.

I trust the Dems can't be this dumb, but there was another thread last week asking Congressional staffers what they were hearing in Congress. The only person that answered was from a Senate office and they said all they were talking about were some leaked Ted Cruz remarks about the GOP and Trump.

Zip about funding, ICE, etc. Doesn't give me a lot of hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not how it works they already had a chance to vote against this when the bill passed before. It shouldn't be allowed to change already passed bills to fund the govt. I bet if Democrats ever get power Republicans will do the same thing it's going to be a problem

??

This is exactly how it works, though. The House passed a bill, the Senate changed the bill and then passed it, now the House has to vote again since the Senate changed it.

[Anonymous]

I think the vote is Tuesday and we’re back Wednesday but who knows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ll be back to work on Tuesday.

I hope so.

I trust the Dems can't be this dumb, but there was another thread last week asking Congressional staffers what they were hearing in Congress. The only person that answered was from a Senate office and they said all they were talking about were some leaked Ted Cruz remarks about the GOP and Trump.

Zip about funding, ICE, etc. Doesn't give me a lot of hope.

That's the problem 2 weeks from now with a 2 week CR for DHS. I agree that if this plan does pass quickly the DHS bit may fall apart.