President Trump signed a $1.2 trillion government funding package on Tuesday to end the partial government shutdown.
A partial government shutdown went into effect on Jan. 30 after Congress failed to pass a budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Tensions after shootings in Minneapolis caused an impasse in Congress.
Some senators, including Utah Representative Mike Lee, requested to separate the Department of Homeland Security from the rest of a proposed 11 bill funding plan by President Trump to fund the rest of the fiscal year. The package was approved for funding of the five bills, but only a two week funding of the DHS.
The 11 bills that remain a part of the package fund the Departments of Defense, State, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation and Education. These departments were also affected by the shutdown due to a lapse in their funding, but operations will continue now that the bill has passed.
The stopgap allows DHS funding to continue for two weeks until it can be revised. Congress will be revisiting ICE operations and potential changes. President Trump signed the bill to reopen the government Tuesday afternoon.
Although DHS was affected by the partial shutdown, ICE operations were not immediately impacted due to funding from the Big Beautiful Bill that already passed in 2025. However, other DHS branches were affected. Air traffic controllers and other Federal Aviation Administration workers were furloughed or worked without pay.
House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Democrats will not accept any further temporary DHS funding until ICE operations are substantially changed.
“We need dramatic change in order to make sure that ICE and other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security are conducting themselves like every other law enforcement organization in the country,” Jeffries said.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that he thinks both sides will come to an agreement by the Feb. 13 deadline.
“This is no time to play games with that funding. We hope that they will operate in good faith over the next 10 days as we negotiate this,” said Johnson. “The president, again, has reached out.”
Author: Lainey Porter
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Editor: Hannah Clove
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