News Wrap: Trump pushes House to pass funding package amid partial shutdown
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Turning to the day's other headlines, President Trump says there can be no changes to a funding package that the House aims to pass this week to fully reopen the federal government. |
| 0:10.0 | He also says he's working hard with Speaker Mike Johnson to make that happen. |
| 0:14.0 | A partial government shutdown began at the end of last week. |
| 0:18.0 | That came after the Senate passed a measure on Friday that would extend funding |
| 0:22.0 | for the Department of Homeland Security for just two weeks as Democrats pushed to rein in |
| 0:27.2 | President Trump's immigration crackdown. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters |
| 0:32.3 | today that he's also working with Johnson on a potential deal, but that DHS funding remains a sticking point. |
| 0:39.3 | Still having seen a clear path articulated an iron-clad path articulated by the Trump administration |
| 0:47.3 | related to the type of dramatic changes that are necessary in order to rain ice in. It's out of control. And the American people know it. |
| 0:58.5 | This latest funding battle comes just months after a 43-day shutdown last fall, which was the |
| 1:04.3 | longest in history. Parts of the southeastern U.S. are digging out from another weekend winter |
| 1:10.3 | storm. |
| 1:11.0 | This time it was North Carolina that took the biggest hit. |
| 1:14.4 | Some areas broke records with more than a foot of snow, |
| 1:17.3 | and there were more than a thousand traffic collisions, two of them fatal. |
| 1:21.4 | In the meantime, tens of thousands are still without power across the south, |
| 1:25.5 | more than a week after the last crippling storm. |
| 1:28.4 | While in Florida, farmers rushed to protect their citrus crops from some of the coldest air |
| 1:33.2 | in decades with the cold weather set to continue. |
| 1:36.5 | Meantime, in Pennsylvania this morning... |
| 1:39.3 | It's Paxibati! |
| 1:42.4 | The world's most famous groundhog reportedly saw his shadow, which by tradition means six more weeks of winter. |
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