{"id":44335,"date":"2026-02-01T04:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/democrats-refuse-to-help-republicans-pass-funding-package-to-avoid-shutdown-media\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:21:30","slug":"democrats-refuse-to-help-republicans-pass-funding-package-to-avoid-shutdown-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/democrats-refuse-to-help-republicans-pass-funding-package-to-avoid-shutdown-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats refuse to help Republicans pass funding package to avoid &apos;shutdown&apos; &#8211; Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats have informed Republican leaders that they will not help pass a funding package through an expedited procedure. This complicated Speaker Mike Johnson&#039;s plan to quickly pass the measure and keep the government running.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F02%2F01%2F1769915603-2302-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Democrats refuse to help Republicans pass funding package to avoid &#039;shutdown&#039; - Media\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the US House of Representatives have informed Republican leaders that they will not help pass a funding package through an expedited procedure. This was reported by The Hill, citing an unnamed source in the House of Representatives, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>The publication indicates that this complicated Speaker Mike Johnson&#039;s plan to &quot;quickly pass this measure&quot; and resume government operations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This means the package will likely now have to go through the regular rules process, in which Republicans can afford no more than one party-line vote, assuming all members are present and voting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the article says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The media reminds that the Senate late Friday night passed a $1.2 trillion funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week interim measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency under close scrutiny for its immigration enforcement tactics.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Democrats have promised that they will not support the allocation of an additional $10 billion for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement until reforms to the agency&#039;s work are agreed upon. They demand to limit its powers and implement changes in immigration control practices after a series of incidents, including deaths during federal agents&#039; operations in Minneapolis,&quot; the authors note.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the US government suspended operations, facing a shutdown, on Saturday, January 31, but the funding interruption is expected to be short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Senate Democrats strike deal to avoid shutdown30.01.26, 13:59 \u2022 3362 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats have informed Republican leaders that they will not help pass a funding package through an expedited procedure. This complicated Speaker Mike Johnson&#039;s plan to quickly pass the measure and keep the government running. Democrats in the US House of Representatives have informed Republican leaders that they will not help pass a funding package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}