Senate Votes 71-29 to Pass Revised Government Funding Package

The Senate on Friday evening voted 71-29 to pass a revised $1.2 trillion funding package that will partially fund the government until September 30.

The bill will now head to the House.

The House is in recess until Monday, so the government will partially shut down over the weekend.

The Democrats and President Trump will have two weeks to negotiate the Homeland Security appropriations bill.

71-29: Senate passed legislation to avert a government shutdown at midnight tonight. 60 votes were needed. The six bill spending package funds major parts of the gov’t including the Defense, Education & State Depts. to September 30, the end of the fiscal year, and the Homeland… pic.twitter.com/3casQynixH

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 30, 2026

The Hill reported:

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to pass a major funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but the legislation won’t become law before parts of the government shut down at midnight.

The 71-29 vote caps a week of Senate drama after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, sparking a public backlash against the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers and pushing Democrats to oppose the DHS funding bill that was part of a six-bill funding package.

Democrats vowed to block the entire funding package that had been carefully negotiated over months between Republican and Democratic members of the Appropriations Committee, putting Congress on course for what some lawmakers feared would be another prolonged government shutdown.

But senators managed to save the funding package by negotiating a last-minute deal with the White House to split off the Homeland Security appropriations bill from the five other spending measures funding the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Transportation and State, among others.

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