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ABC News Update

Monday, February 02, 2026 08:00PM ET

ABC News Update

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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From ABC News, I'm Stephanie Officer.

0:05.0

There's a partial government shutdown.

0:09.0

Even though the Senate passed a spending package last week separating Homeland Security funding from a larger government spending bill.

0:16.0

The House is now getting back to work. Speaker Mike Johnson says he's confident that GOP- house will get a package passed soon another sticking point is the safe act which

0:24.2

would require proof of US citizenship and people register to vote in federal

0:27.2

elections GOP hardliners are demanding it get attached we all want to save

0:31.9

act but we also look at the reality of the numbers here and we pass the

0:36.2

safe act twice in the house. We'll pass it again.

0:38.6

We'll do that. But this is a funding package right now and I don't think we need to be playing

0:42.3

games with government funding. We still have winter storms. We've got FEMA and TSA and troop pay

0:47.1

and everything else wrapped into this. So we've got to get the job done. More details today from

0:51.7

Las Vegas authorities on a suspected bio lab found in a home over the weekend.

0:55.7

The FBI says investigators discovered a biosafety equipment, a centerfusion, unknown liquids and vials.

1:02.1

Authorities add the house is suspected to be tied to a similar case in California where investigators found highly infectious diseases, including malaria and COVID.

1:10.6

Sheriff Kevin McMayhill says investigators also found people living there.

1:14.6

There were three individuals inside of that home.

1:16.6

Each had independently rented a room from the property owner.

1:20.6

They were safely removed from the residents.

1:22.6

And at this time, they are not involved in this investigation.

1:26.6

New details are emerging about last week's FBI raid on an elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia.

1:33.3

Over 700 ballot boxes from the 2020 election were seized.

1:36.3

President Biden won the popular and electoral college vote in 2020, but President Trump remains fixated on the nearly six-year-old election.

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