🏛️ BREAKTHROUGH: House Votes 217–214 to End Government Shutdown!
The brief, four-day partial government shutdown is officially over. Following a nail-biting 217 to 214 vote in the House yesterday, February 3, 2026, the federal government is back in business.
$CHESS While the Senate cleared the path last week with a bipartisan 71 to 29 vote, the House floor saw high drama as leadership scrambled to secure the final votes needed to send the bill to President Trump’s desk.
$SYRUP 🔍 What’s in the $1.2 Trillion Deal?
The package provides full-year funding through September 30 for the "Big Five" departments that were caught in the lapse:
Defense & State Departments
Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS)
Education
Transportation
⚠️ The DHS "Sticking Point"
The only agency not fully funded is Homeland Security (DHS). In a strategic compromise, lawmakers approved only a two-week "patch" (expiring February 13).
Why only two weeks? Negotiations hit a wall following the tragic deaths of two citizens during federal immigration operations in Minneapolis. Democrats are demanding strict new "guardrails" for ICE and CBP, including:
Mandatory body cameras for all agents.
Strict "no-mask" policies to ensure officer identification.
Judicial warrants for all enforcement operations.
📉 The Tally: A House Divided
The vote fell almost entirely along party lines, with a few notable exceptions:
21 Republicans voted "No," pushing for even deeper spending cuts or stricter voter ID laws.
21 Democrats voted "Yes," crossing the aisle to ensure federal workers (and Friday’s crucial jobs report) weren't sidelined any longer.
$BTC The Bottom Line: The lights are back on, but the clock is already ticking. Congress has just 10 days to solve the immigration enforcement deadlock before DHS faces its own "funding cliff" on February 13.
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