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Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 28, 2026. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt\/States Newsroom)<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as Thursday night to approve a government funding package after Democrats brokered a deal with the White House to strip out the full-year spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That bill will be replaced by a two-week stopgap for programs run out of DHS, which includes the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency \u2014 at a time when the agency is responding to a major winter storm \u2014 and the Secret Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The change is intended to give Republicans and Democrats more time to reach agreement on restrictions to federal immigration enforcement after the deadly shooting of a second U.S. citizen by immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post that he wanted lawmakers to send him the reworked package in time to avoid a partial government shutdown, which would likely begin this weekend after a stopgap spending law expires.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI am working hard with Congress to ensure that we are able to fully fund the Government, without delay,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cRepublicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to get the vast majority of the Government funded until September, while at the same time providing an extension to the Department of Homeland Security (including the very important Coast Guard, which we are expanding and rebuilding like never before). Hopefully, both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed Bipartisan \u2018YES\u2019 Vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Snow piled outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 29, 2026. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt\/States Newsroom)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The package, once through the Senate, will need to go back to the House for final approval, though GOP leaders in that chamber haven\u2019t announced if they will bring lawmakers back before Monday, when members are scheduled to return to Capitol Hill from a weeklong break.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once the House clears the package, it will head to Trump for his signature.<\/p>\n

Senators did not change or remove the Defense, Financial Services and General Government, Labor-HHS-Education, National Security-State and Transportation-HUD appropriations bills from the package.<\/p>\n

Congress previously approved half of the dozen annual spending bills, so once this package becomes law, the Department of Homeland Security will be the only division of the federal government without its full-year funding bill.<\/p>\n

List of Democratic demands<\/h4>\n

Democrats and Republicans reached consensus on some changes to the Homeland Security appropriations bill after the\u00a0Jan. 7 shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good<\/a>, including funding for body cameras and additional oversight of detention facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House\u00a0approved that bill<\/a> last week and sent it to the Senate as part of the larger package.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Border Patrol agents\u2019\u00a0shooting and killing of Alex Pretti<\/a> led Democrats to call for the DHS spending bill to be pulled to give lawmakers time to negotiate additional guardrails on federal immigration actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,\u00a0outlined<\/a> a list of proposed changes Tuesday that included:\u00a0<\/p>\n