{"id":439322,"date":"2026-01-30T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439322\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:28:08","slug":"us-senate-scrambles-to-reach-funding-deal-as-partial-shutdown-deadline-looms-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439322\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate scrambles to reach funding deal as partial shutdown deadline looms | US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Senate on Friday was scrambling to find agreement on a government funding package as a partial shutdown loomed at midnight, after the killings of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis upended spending talks and gave Democrats<\/a> rare leverage over Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation campaign.<\/p>\n

The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both US citizens shot dead amid a surge of immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis, prompted Senate Democrats to block passage of a measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That jeopardized a broader legislative package intended to continue funding through September for a slew of government departments.<\/p>\n

The Senate\u2019s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, has outlined a series of reforms<\/a> to federal agents he wanted codified in the DHS\u2019s funding measure, including the requirement that officers wear body cameras, abide by a code of conduct and cease wearing masks and conducting \u201croving patrols\u201d aimed at people they suspect of being illegally in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are not radical demands, they\u2019re basic standards the American people already expect from law enforcement,\u201d Schumer said on the Senate floor Friday morning. \u201cI hope we can get voting quickly here in the Senate today so we can move forward on the important work of reining in ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumer\u2019s office announced Thursday evening that a deal had been reached with Republicans<\/a> to quickly pass through the Senate five spending bills that had bipartisan agreement and would continue the operations of departments including defense, labor, and health and human services through September. Funding for DHS would be addressed with a stopgap measure lasting two-weeks, which would allow time for negotiations over the Democrats\u2019s demands for reforms to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

However, the package needs approval by the House of Representatives, which is out of session and not scheduled to return until Monday \u2013 thus guaranteeing a partial shutdown beginning after midnight Friday and lasting at least through the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe earliest floor action we could have is Monday, so we could inevitably be in a short shutdown situation,\u201d Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson told USA Today. \u201cBut the House is going to do its job. We want to get the government funded, as does the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agreement was expected to be put to a vote by the Senate on Thursday evening, but Republican Lindsey Graham reportedly held up the process of passing it unanimously, demanding the removal of a provision undoing the ability of lawmakers to sue the government if their phone call records were obtained by the FBI as part of its investigation into Trump\u2019s 2020 election meddling.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Graham did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Should the agreement hold, it represents an opportunity for Democrats to impose guardrails on Trump\u2019s mass deportation campaign, which began immediately after he took office a year ago and has seen masked federal agents fan out to major cities nationwide.<\/p>\n

The result has been hundreds of thousands<\/a> of arrests and deportations, but also killings by ICE agents<\/a>, detentions<\/a> of US citizens<\/a>, and complaints from local leaders and advocacy groups of brutal tactics by officers and violations of rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to evaluate what the real opportunity is to get dramatic change at the Department of Homeland Security. It needs to be bold, it needs to be meaningful, and it needs to be transformative,\u201d the Democratic House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, said Friday.<\/p>\n

But it has come together too late to prevent several federal government departments from closing their doors or curtailing services over the weekend and perhaps on Monday, the first business day when the shutdown will be in effect.<\/p>\n

Should the spending deal pass the Senate, its reception in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives remains uncertain. The chamber had passed both the DHS bill and the five spending bills last week, with seven Democrats joining with the GOP<\/a> to advance the latter despite calls that it be held up over Good\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n

However, several rightwing lawmakers have demanded that if the measures return to the chamber, they be coupled with legislation conservatives have demanded such as the Save Act<\/a>, which would impose identification requirements to vote that critics say would disenfranchise swaths of Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cEVERY SINGLE APPROPRIATIONS BILL THAT IS VOTED OUT OF THE HOUSE MUST HAVE THE SAVE ACT ATTACHED,\u201d Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna said Friday.<\/p>\n

Their opposition could complicate passage of the spending measures, since Republicans control the chamber with 218 seats to the Democrats\u2019 213 \u2013 a one seat majority. Jeffries warned that Republicans will be blamed if their infighting prevents passage of the spending bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe demands being made by far-right extremists in the House Republican conference are going nowhere, and if, for whatever reason, Speaker Johnson bends the knee to the far right, then Republicans are going to shut the government down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Even if the government shuts down, it is unlikely to halt ICE\u2019s deportation operations. The agency received $75bn from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last year that it could use, and the Trump administration<\/a> could also mandate that its employees continue working during a shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Senate on Friday was scrambling to find agreement on a government funding package as a partial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-439322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}