House Republican leaders say they are on track to pass a bipartisan deal to end the ongoing partial government shutdown Tuesday after securing key conservative votes.
“We’ll have the votes, yeah,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told NOTUS on Monday night.
The Senate approved the funding package with bipartisan support Friday, after the White House brokered a deal to stave off a prolonged government shutdown. The agreement includes five House-passed appropriations bills and a two-week-long continuing resolution, or “CR,” for the Department of Homeland Security.
The funding patch for DHS is intended to give lawmakers time to negotiate changes to operations within Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Democrats stalled the appropriations process last month and demanded reforms after immigration agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minnesota.
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House conservatives spent days railing against the agreement, insisting that GOP leadership attach the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to the package. But after conversations with President Donald Trump, these holdouts began to cave, as they have historically.
Monday night, the ringleader of the conservative crusade, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, said she would support a key procedural vote to advance the package, clearing the way for the shutdown to end as early as Tuesday afternoon.
Luna and conservative Rep. Tim Burchett arrived at Monday evening votes late after a meeting with the president at the White House. The pair told reporters they received assurances that the Senate would take up the SAVE Act.
“As of right now, with the current agreement that we have, as well as discussions, we will both be a ‘yes’ on the rule,” Luna said.
White House officials are reportedly slated to attend the House Freedom Caucus’ weekly meeting Monday evening to help smooth the package forward with other potential holdouts.
Ending the government shutdown is a priority for Trump, who is eager to shift attention off of his administration’s unpopular immigration crackdowns, particularly ahead of the 2026 midterms.
In a Monday Truth Social post, he said he would work “in good faith to address the issues that have been raised, but we cannot have another long, pointless, and destructive Shutdown that will hurt our Country so badly.”
“I am working hard with Speaker Johnson to get the current funding deal, which passed in the Senate last week, through the House and to my desk, where I will sign it into Law, IMMEDIATELY!” Trump wrote. “We need to get the Government open, and I hope all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this Bill, and send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY. There can be NO CHANGES at this time.”
Rep. Tom Cole, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said he’d heard Trump was calling members “individually” to get them in line with passing the package.
“They need to stop thinking about themselves and start thinking about what’s best for the country. What’s best for the country is a functioning federal government under President Trump, with the American military paid and with our skies being operated by people that are getting a check for what they do,” Cole said of those threatening to tank the bill. “I don’t care what your petty little thing is. Time to grow up and be part of a team.”
Conservatives deciding to support the procedural vote on the floor likely spares House Democrats a politically uncomfortable dynamic. If Johnson fails to secure the votes to pass the rule with just the GOP conference, Democrats would have to decide whether they should cut a deal with the speaker, or prolong a government shutdown.
Still, Democrats are navigating their own internal divisions, and deciding whether they will assist Republicans on final passage.
Top Democratic leaders have not indicated how they plan to vote on the package. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Monday that he plans to survey his caucus at their internal meeting Tuesday morning before making any announcements.
But if Johnson can pass a rule, the legislation will have bipartisan support for final passage.
The top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, said she will vote for the funding package. DeLauro argued that Democrats will have more power to insist on reforms to the DHS if Congress separates the department’s funding from the rest of the spending package.
Cole praised DeLauro for backing the funding deal. “Five of these bills have been negotiated and compromised over. God bless Rosa DeLauro because she’s trying to help us get those five passed,” Cole said Monday night. “She’s been good to her word.”
“It gives us time, and it gives us leverage to secure the protections we need for our communities,” DeLauro said during a House Rules Committee meeting. “For if we do not do that, we will not be able to bring the kinds of pressure that is necessary to make sure that ICE does not continue to terrorize our communities.”
But just because Johnson is on track to secure some Democratic support for the legislation this week, there are others who are adamantly opposed to approving more money for DHS.
“I’m a HELL NO on any funding to ICE & DHS this week,” Rep. Robert Gacria posted on X Monday. “Not one penny.”
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