Speaker Mike Johnson will try to clear a $1.2 trillion spending package in the House this week despite mounting Democratic opposition and fractures within his own GOP conference.
The five-bill fiscal 2026 package, which passed the Senate on Friday, punts on full-year funding for the Homeland Security Department as lawmakers try to negotiate tighter restrictions on federal immigration agents in the wake of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis last month. Instead, it would extend Homeland Security funding for only two weeks, through Feb. 13.
Johnson, R-La., said Sunday that he expects to clear the package for President Donald Trump’s signature by Tuesday. But he said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has made it clear to him that Democrats would not provide the wide support for the bill needed to clear it under suspension of the rules, which requires a two-thirds majority vote.
