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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about a government shutdown, funding, and Trump....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about a government shutdown, funding, and Trump....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again. So today, we're going to talk about a

0:09.1

government shutdown, funding, and Trump. Yesterday, the Senate voted 71 to 29 to fund most of the

0:18.4

government through September. The bill will head to the House on Monday,

0:23.0

and a vote is expected Monday evening. The vote is supposed to happen by 6.30 p.m. This means Speaker

0:31.6

Johnson plans on bringing it up under what's known as a suspension of the rules.

0:38.3

When a bill is fast-tracked in that manner, it requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass.

0:44.3

So, it needs pretty significant Democratic support to move forward.

0:49.3

All of that means that technically this weekend, we're in a partial government shutdown right now.

0:56.0

But it's unlikely that many people will notice anything.

1:00.0

Now, I said most of the government.

1:04.0

What isn't getting funded through September?

1:07.0

As part of this bill, the Department of Homeland Security only gets funded for two weeks.

1:14.3

This time is designed to allow negotiations over how to go about and how much to rein in immigration

1:21.2

authorities. The Democratic Party has a list of asks, ranging from no masks to ending roving patrols,

1:31.0

to requiring body cams to be worn and turned on, to tighter regulations on warrants, to all

1:37.8

sorts of things.

1:39.8

As of yet, there doesn't appear to be a coherent list worked out in either chamber, much less a

1:46.6

unified one. In the Senate, Schumer said that DHS shouldn't expect funding, quote, unless it

1:55.9

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