Congress rushes to end the government shutdown.

Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah and Punksitani Phil gives us winter-weary folks some bad news.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley.

It's Monday, February 2nd, Groundhog Day, and this is Evening Wire.

Lawmakers are scrambling to end the current government shutdown. Daily Wire political reporter

Cameron Orkan has the latest.

The partial government shutdown was in full swing on Monday, as there was division in the House

after the Senate passed five funding bills on Friday, separate from Department of Homeland Security

funding as part of a deal between the White House and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

DHS funding was swapped out for a continuing resolution that covers money for the agency

through February 13th, whereas the other bills covered funds through the end of the fiscal

year in September.

Schumer and other Democrats are asking for sweeping changes to ICE and Border Patrol

following the Alex Pretty shooting, including the ending of masking for agents and the use of

judicial warrants as opposed to administrative ones, which could make some arrests much more difficult.

President Trump threatened Monday to sue Grammy host Trevor Noah over an Epstein jab he made

during the show. Daily Wire Entertainment reporter Amanda Harding has the story.

While hosting the annual award show on Sunday, Noah joked that Trump won a Greenland because

he could no longer visit Epstein's private

Caribbean island.

That is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes

sense.

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