{"id":445022,"date":"2026-02-02T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:59:07","slug":"live-updates-partial-government-shutdown-continues-amid-ice-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445022\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Partial government shutdown continues amid ICE debates"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> faces tough days ahead<\/a> trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown<\/a> as debate intensifies over the Trump administration\u2019s sweeping immigration enforcement operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Donald Trump<\/a> to ensure passage. <\/p>\n

Trump struck a deal with senators<\/a> to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from a broader package after public outrage over two shooting deaths<\/a> during protests in Minneapolis<\/a> against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. <\/p>\n

Under the plan approved by the Senate,<\/a> DHS would be funded temporarily to Feb. 13, setting up a deadline for Congress to try to find consensus on new restrictions on ICE operations.<\/p>\n

A first test will come Monday afternoon during a committee meeting, when Johnson will need his own GOP majority to advance the package after Democrats refused to provide the votes for speedy consideration.<\/p>\n

Other news we\u2019re following:<\/p>\n

Trump says feds won\u2019t intervene during protests in Democratic-led cities unless asked to do so: Trump said Saturday that he has instructed<\/a> Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> not to intervene in protests occurring in cities led by Democrats unless local authorities ask for federal help amid mounting criticism of his administration\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/a>.Trump says US is \u2018starting to talk to Cuba\u2019 as he moves to cut its oil supplies: The early talks come as Trump\u2019s administration puts greater pressure on the communist-run island<\/a> and cuts off key oil supplies. His goals with Cuba remain unclear<\/a>, but Trump has predicted that the Cuban government is ready to fall.Kennedy Center to close for 2 years for renovations in July after performers\u2019 backlash: It\u2019s the president\u2019s latest proposal to upturn the storied venue<\/a> since returning to the White House. Trump\u2019s announcement on Sunday of the closure follows a wave of cancellations by leading performers, musicians and groups since he ousted the previous leadership and added his name to the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1340,12,3138,9292,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-445022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-and-politics","tag-government-shutdown","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445022","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=445022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}