Republican leaders are sending the Senate-passed $1.2 trillion spending package to the House floor — along with 10 days of funding for the Department of Homeland Security — to buy Congress time to negotiate whether to place new guardrails on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement activities.
The House Rules Committee voted Monday night to set up floor action on legislation that would end a partial government shutdown that began Saturday.
The 8-4 vote came after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Rules Committee Republicans shortly before the panel convened Monday afternoon in an effort to smooth the bill’s path.
With a razor-thin majority, Johnson can afford no more than one Republican defection on a party-line procedural vote to put the legislation on the floor.
