Congress clinches $1.2T funding deal for DHS, Pentagon, domestic agencies
Source: Politico
01/20/2026 06:21 AM EST
Congressional leaders released bill text Tuesday of a bipartisan compromise to fund the vast majority of the federal government ahead of the Jan. 30 shutdown deadline. The bicameral breakthrough on funding for the Pentagon and the nation’s largest non-defense agencies is the product of private negotiations between top appropriators in the two months since Congress ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
House leaders plan to hold a vote later in the week on the legislation, which would boost defense funding to more than $839 billion. It would also fund the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation and Education and Homeland Security.
After the fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month, congressional Democrats have demanded that any new DHS funding come with conditions to crack down on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, even as many Democratic voters call for defunding the agency.
Congress has less than two weeks to clear the package for President Donald Trump’s signature before federal funding is set to lapse for the programs it covers, which account for more than 70 percent of the cash lawmakers approve each year to keep federal agencies running. Because the Senate is in recess this week, the chamber will need to pass the legislation when senators return the last week of January if Congress is going to head off another funding lapse.
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This is baseless, shallow criticism. You're blaming Dems for not being confrontational for all the wrong reasons here...
They are all acting as if the country isn't literally coming apart but politics is politics.
Puh-lease. This is a shallow appearances-only take on Democrats.
You seriously think this of Democrats?? You must not have been reading the nets, and especially here, about how we can best win the midterms -- which is to make sure that we HAVE MIDTERMS.
Democrats are backing all the national protests and protestors, and keeping them non-violent because they know that the felon would invoke the insurrection act and/or martial law if they did otherwise -- and you should know that by now, too -- because using their "2nd amendment remedy" would be exactly the pretext the felon needs.
Moreover, Democrats nationwide are keeping the peace by working through the courts.
Most important of all, Democrats do not want to do anything that would become a pretext for suspending the midterm elections.
You, even as angry as your name suggests, should know this about Democrats and the current situation.
Has there been a post around here of which Democrats voted for the budget bill that includes ICE funding? I haven't seen it, and thought our caucus would only vote yes if it continued healthcare. All I know at this point is that it turns out the Senate isn't inclined to pass this version from the House.