House sends bill ending government shutdown to Trump’s desk after Dems buck Jeffries in final vote

The House of Representatives passed a federal funding bill Tuesday aimed at ending the partial government shutdown; This legislation would end the four-day standoff shortly after the legislation hits President Donald Trump’s desk.

The funding bill is a compromise reached between Senate Democrats and the White House that would fund about 97% of the federal government through the end of fiscal 2026.

Trump played a key role in crafting the new deal and suppressing a rebellion by conservative lawmakers to get to the finish line.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DY) has signaled his strong opposition to the plan, despite his Senate counterpart’s role in putting it together. But many Democrats eventually voted in favor, overruling his concerns.

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Democrats initially walked away from a bipartisan House agreement on Sept. 30 to end funding the federal government by the end of fiscal year 2026, rebelling against a bill that would provide funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over Trump’s handling of unrest in Minneapolis.

Their revolt left roughly 78% of the government’s annual funding hanging because the DHS bill was bundled into a broader package that authorized budgets for the departments of War, Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Education.

The deal reached between Senate Democrats and the White House would extend current funding levels for DHS only through Feb. 13 while fully funding the remaining areas to give Democrats and Republicans time to craft a longer-term bipartisan plan.

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Tuesday that the legislation would be successful but hinted at some dissatisfaction with the direction of negotiations.

“This is not my preferred way. I wanted to keep all six bills together,” Johnson said. “But listen, the president agreed with Schumer that they were going to break up Homeland, we’re going to do that and we’re going to get it done. … Republicans will do the responsible thing.”

The Senate’s federal funding deal cleared a key hurdle late Tuesday morning, clearing a Housewide “rules vote” that would allow lawmakers to debate the measure and take a vote on final passage in the early afternoon.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) leaves the chamber to speak with reporters at the Capitol on November 12, 2025 in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

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This comes after a pair of conservatives in the House announced they would back off their threats to invalidate the law during the rules vote unless it was paired with an unrelated election integrity bill called the SAVE America Act.

Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla. and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., warned America they could not support the bill during the rules vote without the addition of the SAVE Act, but the change was made after a meeting with the White House on Monday night.

“As of now, thanks to our current agreement and discussions, we will both answer yes to this rule,” Luna said. “There’s this thing called the rolling filibuster that effectively allows Senator Thune to put voter ID in the Senate. We’re hearing that’s going well and he’s considering it as well… so we’re very happy about that.”

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The SAVE America Act would require voter ID at the polls and create a new form of proof of citizenship in the voter registration process.

But Luna’s insistence that Thune has embraced the perpetual filibuster, a little-known and outdated legislative maneuver, apparently doesn’t hold true.

Still, Thune said “there have been Senate Republicans who have expressed interest in this issue, so we will talk about it. But no commitment has been made.”

He noted that forcing the standing filibuster to pass the RELIEVE America Act or any variation of it from the House would be a huge waste of time in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks at a news conference with other members of the Senate Republican leadership following a policy luncheon on October 28, 2025 in Washington. (Nathan Posner/Anatolia via Getty Images)

Doing so “indefinitely shortens the time to join,” Thune said. This is because of rules that ensure that any senator has no more than two speeches on a bill. That, combined with the clock being reset with changes to the bill, means the Senate could be effectively paralyzed for months as Republicans erode Democratic opposition.

“There is always an opportunity cost,” Thune said.

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“Well, if at any time an amendment is proposed and that amendment is tabled, the clock resets,” he continued. “The two-speech rule is back in play. Let’s say each Democratic speaker speaks for two hours. That’s 940 hours on the floor.”

It is not yet clear when Trump will sign the funding bill, but the White House is expected to want to act quickly. The longest government shutdown in history, which lasted 43 days, ended in November.