{"id":18520,"date":"2026-02-01T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-says-house-can-end-government-shutdown-by-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:31:53","slug":"mike-johnson-says-house-can-end-government-shutdown-by-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-says-house-can-end-government-shutdown-by-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson says House can end government shutdown ‘by Tuesday’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is confident Congress can end the partial government shutdown “by Tuesday” despite steep opposition from Democrats and turmoil within the GOP conference.<\/p>\n

Johnson is under pressure to unite his caucus, with lawmakers raising concerns<\/a> about funding for the Department of Homeland Security as the Trump administration faces scrutiny<\/a> over its nationwide immigration crackdown that has at times turned violent.<\/p>\n

House Republicans are hoping to take up<\/a> the $1.2 trillion funding package passed by the Senate on Tuesday following a House Rules Committee meeting Monday. The partial shutdown began early Saturday.<\/p>\n

GOP leadership in the House originally hoped to pass the bill<\/a> under suspension of the rules, an expedited process that requires a two-thirds-majority vote, but Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Johnson on Saturday that Democrats would not help Republicans acquire the necessary support for the spending bill.<\/p>\n

“I’m confident that we’ll do it at least by Tuesday,\u201d Johnson said in a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.\u201d \u201cWe have a logistical challenge of getting everyone in town, and because of the conversation I had with Hakeem Jeffries, I know that we’ve got to pass a rule and probably do this mostly on our own. I think that’s very unfortunate.”<\/p>\n

The Senate voted Friday to pass a compromise spending package<\/a> after Senate Democrats struck a deal with President Donald Trump to extend DHS funding for two weeks. The move bought Congress more time to work out a compromise on reforms for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after federal officers fatally shot<\/a> two people<\/a> in Minnesota earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Speaking to host Kristen Welker on \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Johnson acknowledged that \u201cthere’s been tragedies in Minnesota\u201d \u2014 but he also blamed Democrats in the state for \u201cinciting violence,\u201d even as the Trump administration attempts to tamp down pressures in the state.<\/p>\n

Johnson praised Trump\u2019s decision to send<\/a> White House border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis, a step widely seen as a deescalation<\/a> from the aggressive tactics favored by Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Trump] was right to deputize him over that situation,\u201d he said of Homan on NBC. \u201cHe has 40 years of experience in Border Patrol and these issues. So I think that this is going to happen, but we need good faith on both sides. Some of these conditions and requests that they’ve made are obviously reasonable and should happen. But others are going to require a lot more negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson pushed back in particular on Democratic calls to bar federal immigration enforcement officers from wearing masks and require them to wear identification, telling Fox’s Shannon Bream: \u201cThose two things are conditions that would create further danger.\u201d <\/p>\n

He also signaled an unwillingness to negotiate on Democratic demands to tighten requirements for judicial warrants for immigration operations.<\/p>\n

Still, House Democrats remained opposed to passing the funding package as is, with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) saying Sunday: \u201cI’m not just a no. I’m a firm no.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don’t see how in good conscience Democrats can vote for continuing ICE funding when they’re killing American citizens, when there’s no provision to repeal the tripling of the budget,\u201d Khanna said in a Sunday interview with Welker on NBC. \u201cI hope my colleagues will say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffries also signaled Sunday that a wide gap remains between his conference and House Republicans, telling ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos that the House must reach an agreement on judicial warrants \u201cas a condition of moving forward.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that we’ve said publicly is that we need a robust path toward dramatic reform,\u201d Jeffries said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cThe administration can’t just talk the talk, they need to walk the walk. That should begin today. Not in two weeks, today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is confident Congress can end the partial government shutdown “by Tuesday” despite steep opposition from Democrats and turmoil within the GOP conference. Johnson is under pressure to unite his caucus, with lawmakers raising concerns about funding for the Department of Homeland Security as the Trump administration faces scrutiny over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}