The shutdown ends — now what?
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, the House voted 217–214 to pass a full-year funding package for several federal agencies, excluding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ending a four-day partial government shutdown. The funding bill previously passed the Senate 71–29, after Democrats pushed to remove appropriations for DHS following the shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers in Minnesota in January. 21 Democrats voted for the measure in the House, while 21 Republicans voted against it. President Donald Trump signed the bill on Tuesday, funding most federal departments through September 30; the deadline to fund Homeland Security was set for next Friday, February 13.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place you get |
| 0:23.5 | views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Wednesday, February 4th, and today we are covering the government |
| 0:33.8 | shutdown that I guess no longer exists, The government funding deal. We have a |
| 0:40.4 | mostly funded government with DHS stuff on hold. So we're going to break down exactly what |
| 0:46.3 | happens and the fight that this is setting up for the future, which should be pretty interesting. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm going to share some views from the left and the right and then my take. I'm here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You got the whole Tangle team here this week. |
| 0:58.6 | So I'm recording this sitting next to my good dear friend John Loll, our executive producer, |
| 1:04.0 | which is not a common thing these days. Super excited for the show. Glad to be here with the team. |
| 1:09.9 | And with that, I'm going to pass it over to John for today's main topic. And I'll be back for the show. Glad to be here with the team. And with that, I'm going to pass it over |
| 1:11.5 | to John for today's main topic. And I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:21.7 | Thanks, Isaac. And welcome, everybody. Here are your quick hits for today. First up, Israel carried |
| 1:26.6 | out airstri strikes in Gaza after |
| 1:28.3 | it said Palestinian militants attacked Israeli soldiers early this morning. Gaza officials said |
| 1:33.4 | at least 21 people were killed in Wednesday's strikes. Number two, in an interview with |
| 1:38.1 | former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump called |
| 1:42.8 | on the Republican Party to nationalize the voting in the United States, |
| 1:46.7 | saying specifically that the GOP should take over the voting in at least 15 places, which he did not name. |
| 1:53.4 | Number three, President Trump and Colombian President Costavo Petro met at the White House to discuss the country's relations after months of tensions over the Trump administration's actions in Latin America. Both leaders called the meeting a success, |
| 2:05.0 | and said they were working on a counter-narcotics agreement. Number four, the U.S. military |
| 2:09.7 | shot down an unmanned Iranian drone approximately 500 miles from Iran's southern coast |
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