The Latest Breaking News from Mike Johnson

The bill passed 71-29 and will now head to the House, which is not due back until Monday, meaning the government could be in a partial shutdown temporarily over the weekend until they pass it.

The Senate passed a spending package, averting a government shutdown by funding most agencies until September 30. A two-week Homeland Security funding extension was attached to the deal. The House will consider the package Monday, facing potential challenges from conservative hard-liners and some Democrats wary of the stopgap measure.

"We may inevitably be in a short shutdown situation."

The deal emerges as the nation grapples with the deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis

Plan would include removing Homeland Security bill from the package, replacing it with a short-term continuing resolution for that agency

ANALYSIS: Democrats think they have a chance to pass modest reforms to ICE. But, Eric Garcia writes, they face numerous challenges

With Republicans out on the campaign trail, absences are turning routine votes into nail-biters.

The Houston Republican, who has missed 44 of 48 votes this month, said such absences are typical for those seeking higher office. Rep. Chip Roy, a candidate for Texas attorney general, has not missed any votes in 2026.

ANALYSIS: Republicans continue to vote in line with Trump no matter how unpopular he is, Eric Garcia writes. But it might cost him - and them - in the long term