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Posted on 02/03/2026 12:10:40 PM PST by thegagline
The House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion funding deal to end the four-day partial government shutdown Tuesday, sending it to President Trump’s desk for his expected signature.
Lawmakers voted 217-214 to pass the compromise funding package, which cleared the Senate late Friday and keeps about 97% of the government operating through Sept. 30.
Now Congress faces a 10-day scramble to negotiate a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security before its key agencies run out of cash Feb. 13, a timeline Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) described as “an impossibility.” *** The GOP holdouts were mainly miffed by the funding package not including the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote. While the SAVE Act has already passed the House, Senate Democrats have been able to block it via the 60-vote filibuster.
Multiple House Republicans wanted the SAVE Act either included in the funding deal — forcing a Senate vote that will likely fail and prolong the partial shutdown — or assurances from Thune that he would find a workaround to pass it.
Trump on Monday demanded House Republicans send the funding package to him without making any changes, wanting to keep the government shutdown as short as possible.
*** Senate Democrats demanded reforms to immigration enforcement following the Jan. 24 shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. *** That led to the current $1.2 trillion funding deal, which includes five appropriations bills and a two-week spending patch to keep DHS afloat while negotiations play out on the Democrats’ demands.
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Also included in the funding bill that Trump will sign is Welfare for Illegals:
REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for refugee and entrant assistance activities authorized by section 414 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and section 501 of the Ref-23 ugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, and for carrying out section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, section 235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims HR 7148 PCS 249 Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ("TVPA"), and the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998, $5,163,956,000, of which $5,114,201,000 shall remain available through September 5 30, 2028 for carrying out such sections ***
There was a government shutdown?
GOP... snatching defeat from the jaws of victory again... and again... and again... and...
As usual Dems kicked sand in their faces
Trump supported the bill.
The Senate rejected an amendment Friday that would strip $5.1 billion in refugee welfare spending out of a government funding package in a vote of 32-67.
Some GOP senators likely voted against the measure over concerns that partisan amendments could ultimately derail the funding package. President Donald Trump also urged the Senate to approve the funding package containing the refugee assistance money.
“Republicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to get the vast majority of the Government funded until September,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Thursday offering his praise of the bipartisan deal.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/30/republicans-vote-against-refugee-welfare-funding-package/
So the Trump, “fight, fight, fight” thing was just marketing?
TEA Party and MAGA is just marketing with no real fight. Damn shame, the ‘mericans have no representation except for the few who are hated like MTG, Massie, Paul, e6c...
Welfare for illegals. Money for every foreigner that wants it. No voter integrity law. Remind me again why it’s so critical we vote GOP at the midterm?
The kabuki dance continues.
There isn’t a reason. It’s all theatre and our President is going to sign it. Next up is funding for DHS which won’t get passed a Senate filibuster. But but they are funded through blah blah blah. Why then are they voting on funding?
SAVE is being handled separately, as I understand it.
Really? Twist yourself into a pretzel then and explain why this bill is so magnificent and the signing of it even better and when the “fight” is to begin.
Abolish the filibuster! The Dems will do it as soon as they regain power.
$5,163,956,000, of which $5,114,201,000 shall remain available through September 5 30, 2028 for carrying out such sections ***
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where’s DOGE now that we really need um?
Oooooo but hey Democrats always separate funding separate funding from large bills even when we press them to do it. We are a pathetic party.
Without a corrupt judiciary, the SAVE Act would not be necessary - with it the SAVE Act can't have any real effect.
DOGE was a ruse and a pipe dream. A failed attempt to look over here and forget what you see there
All I can say is if they don’t get in control of the vote and the counting esteem now and November I’m done voting at all. Enough is enough.
No, they have definitely had some fight in them for “We the People.”
Once upon a time, Trump wasn’t concerned about bad polling when a fight was needed for us.
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