House Democrats poised to rebel against Schumer spending deal, extend shutdown

House Democrats are preparing to rebel against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s spending deal with the White House, according to Fox News Digital. It was said that this move could extend the ongoing partial government shutdown.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Y) made clear to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that Republicans’ plan to fast-track legislation Monday evening will fail, four House GOP sources told Fox News Digital.

That means Johnson must rely on his razor-thin House majority to push the bill through multiple procedural hurdles before it sees a final vote, likely as soon as Tuesday.

The federal government has been partially shut down since early Saturday morning after Congress failed to reach agreement on the annual budget by the end of January 30.

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Some areas of the government are already funded, but spending for the departments of War, Transportation (DOT), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among others, are now in question.

House Democrats do not feel bound by the deal their Senate counterparts reached with President Donald Trump’s White House, sources told Fox News Digital.

Sources said House Democrats were also disappointed that Schumer had put them in a position where they were expected to take on the deal.

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“Democrats’ division is causing another government shutdown,” one House Republican told Fox News Digital.

But it may also be difficult for House GOP leaders to garner all the votes needed. While numerous Republicans have already expressed concern about the compromise requiring them to negotiate with Democrats to rein in Trump’s crackdown on immigrants, others like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., are pushing for their own priorities to be included in exchange for their support.

Luna told Fox News Digital that he would not support the legislation unless it included a separate but widely accepted GOP bill, an unrelated measure that would require proof of citizenship in the voter registration process.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the chamber to speak with reporters after the final vote to end the longest government shutdown in history at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

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Johnson told House Republicans on a lawmakers-only call Friday that he hoped to pass the legislation under a “regulatory hold,” speeding up bills in exchange for raising the threshold for passage from a simple majority to two-thirds of the chamber.

But now the House Rules Committee, the final watchdog before most chamber-wide votes, will consider the legislation Monday afternoon.

It then must survive a Housewide “rules vote,” a procedural test vote that normally falls along party lines, before a vote is taken on final passage.

House Majority Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) signaled to Fox News Live host Aishah Hasnie earlier Saturday that he expects Jeffries to go rogue against Schumer.

“We can’t trust the minority leader to get his members to do the right thing. That’s the problem,” Emmer told Hasnie.

The deal that passed the Senate on Friday consolidated five House-passed spending bills while leaving out a bipartisan plan to fund DHS.

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Instead, it will fund DHS at current levels for two weeks while Democrats and Republicans negotiate a longer-term bill that would also rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Democrats demanded it after federal law enforcement killed two U.S. citizens during anti-ICE demonstrations in Minneapolis.

A Border Patrol member fires pepper spray at observers after a traffic accident on Blaisdell Boulevard on Jan. 21, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minn. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

But Jeffries made no promises regarding the deal after it passed the Senate on Friday, saying in a public statement that “the House Democratic Caucus will evaluate the Senate-passed spending bill on its merits and then decide how to proceed legislatively.”

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Failure to move forward with the plan could lead to capping or pausing pay for military personnel and airport workers, as well as calling into question funding for natural disaster management and federal health care.

Fox News Digital reached out to Jeffries, Schumer and Johnson’s offices for further comment but did not immediately hear back.