A Shutdown On Pause
What A Day
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Senate Democrats were ready to shut down the government Friday night in order to get much-needed reforms to ICE and Border Patrol — but they didn’t need to. On Thursday, they made a deal with Republicans and the White House to fund most of the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year. The Department of Homeland Security, however, will only be funded for two weeks while Senators negotiate some guardrails for ICE. So what happens now? To find out, we spoke with Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine on Thursday just before Senate Democrats announced their deal.
And in headlines, President Trump hopes for Iranian regime change, the Justice Department files federal charges against the man accused of attacking Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, and activists ask Americans to skip school, work, and shopping Friday to protest ongoing ICE operations.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, January 30th. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. |
| 0:07.5 | The show watching President Donald Trump tell Americans under 35 looking to buy a home. |
| 0:12.0 | Sucks to suck! |
| 0:13.1 | That is Thursday cabinet meeting. |
| 0:15.3 | Existing housing, people that own their homes, we're going to keep them wealthy. |
| 0:20.3 | We're going to keep those prices up. We're not going to destroy the value of their homes, we're going to keep them wealthy. We're going to keep those prices up. |
| 0:22.6 | We're not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody that didn't work very hard |
| 0:27.2 | can buy a home. By somebody that didn't work very hard, he means you. And there's more. |
| 0:34.4 | I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes. |
| 0:40.0 | And they can be sure that's what's going to happen. |
| 0:43.2 | The Affordability President. |
| 1:01.0 | On today's show, President Trump hopes for change, Iranian regime change. |
| 1:05.2 | And activists are asking Americans to ice out the economy, Oregon school today, |
| 1:08.4 | to protest ongoing immigration and customs enforcement operations. |
| 1:10.2 | But let's start with the Senate. Senate Democrats were ready |
| 1:12.0 | to shut down the government tonight in order to get much-needed reforms to ICE and Border Patrol, |
| 1:16.7 | but they didn't need to. On Thursday, according to the New York Times, Senate Democrats struck a deal |
| 1:21.8 | with Republicans and the White House to pass five bills that would fund most of the federal |
| 1:25.8 | government for the rest of the fiscal year. |
| 1:31.6 | The Department of Homeland Security, however, will only be funded for two weeks while they negotiate some guardrails for ICE. The breakthrough came after the Senate failed to pass the |
| 1:36.5 | massive spending package with all six bills on Thursday. Every Senate Democrat and eight Senate |
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