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House narrowly passes bill to end shutdown, but divisive DHS funding fight remains

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The four-day partial government shutdown is now over. In short succession Tuesday, lawmakers passed and Trump signed a funding package to fully reopen the federal government. But the policy fight over Trump's immigration crackdown in U.S. cities that caused the shutdown is far from over, and the government has given itself only a small window of borrowed time. Lisa Desjardins explains. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Welcome to the News Hour. The four-day partial government shutdown is now over. Lawmakers passed a funding package today, which President Trump then signed reopening the government.

0:10.8

But the policy fight behind this shutdown over Mr. Trump's immigration crackdown is far from over. And the government has given itself just a small window of borrowed time. As congressional correspondent, Lisa Desjardin, has been following and is now here to explain. Lisa, good to see you. So just kick us off here. What happened today and what does it mean? This narrowly passed the House. It was close and there was a great deal of floor drama. And I'm going to talk a little bit about it because it is important for what lies ahead.

0:38.3

The House does have the narrowest majority, just a one vote majority for Republicans in history.

0:43.3

And that was a factor today in an hour or so that this bill was actually failing on the House floor.

0:49.3

Here's why. There were five Republicans who, House Speaker Johnson, needed to vote yes. They either weren't voting or were voting no.

0:56.8

Most of them were trying to use this as leverage to try and get a voter ID law passed.

1:01.4

But one of them, John Rose of Tennessee, notably the Speaker said his problem was he's running for the governor of Tennessee and wants some more help from President Trump.

1:11.2

This is a major funding bill, and yet it was held up for that.

1:14.1

Now, this is important because, as you say, now we still have a period of time where DHS itself is not funded.

1:20.6

This is just a short-term patch.

1:22.7

So, again, what happened today was this law fully funds most agencies in government, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which has 10 days worth of funding.

1:31.9

During those 10 days, lawmakers are supposed to negotiate a deal on ICE and CBP.

1:36.8

But those frustrated Republicans today, they're still frustrated.

1:39.9

One of them continued to vote no, Thomas Massey of Kentucky.

1:43.1

Our producer, Kyle Maduro, caught up with him and talked about his opposition.

1:48.8

Is it worth holding out for it or you'd think that this is all just processed?

1:53.2

You got to hold out for something at some point, right?

1:56.2

Nobody's holding out for anything here with me.

1:58.7

And I held out for the Epstein files and got it done.

2:01.6

They got to start holding out for something.

2:03.6

You hear that? They got to start holding out for something.

2:05.6

There's only 10 days left until the next funding wall hits.

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