House to vote on Tuesday to end partial government shutdown

WASHINGTON, D.C. – February 3, 2026 – The U.S. House of Representatives will consider a procedural vote to consider a funding package that if passed will keep the government funded and end the partial government shutdown.

Conservatives in the House are not happy that the Senate changed the funding package.

If the House passes a bill with changes and sends it back to the Senate – as some members have advocated for – that will delay the process even further.

President Donald J. Trump on Monday announced his support for the Senate package and is pushing Republican House members to vote for it.

"We need to get the Government open, and I hope all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this Bill, and send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY. There can be NO CHANGES at this time," Trump said on Truth Social. "We will work together in good faith to address the issues that have been raised."

Some Republicans want to include a demand that all states require voters to present a photo ID to vote in the package.

House Democrats may vote against the package because they disagree with funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because they are upset that ICE is deporting illegal immigrants and legal immigrants who have committed aggravated felonies.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has said that the Democrats will not set in and help help Republicans if they struggle on a party-line procedural rule vote.

"Republicans have a responsibility to move the rule," Jeffries told the Hill in a press conference on Monday. "It's hard to imagine a scenario where Democrats are going to provide Republicans - who spent all last year lecturing us about the fact they had some big, massive mandate, really?"

The House has already passed a funding bill but it was blocked by Senate Democrats. The Senate passed changes to that funding bill after the White House brokered a deal with Senate Democrats.

The Senate passed a minibus of five full-year appropriations bills – not including funding for DHS. This deal would extending the DHS bill for only two weeks, giving time to negotiate on demands from Democrats to add reforms on immigration enforcement.

This minibus deal is what House members will vote on today.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has been helping the Whitehouse try to get enough Republican votes to pass the unpopular compromise.

Some conservatives have said publicly that they will not support the compromise.

Federal employees were paid on Saturday. Since most federal workers are paid every two weeks, that gives negotiators 11 days of time before any federal workers miss a check. Failure to pass the compromise today, though likely will lead to furloughing of federal workers.

This is the second partial government shutdown since Congress failed to pass a budget on September 30. The first was the longest shutdown in history.

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