The US Capitol is seen ahead of a possible government shutdown in Washington, DC, January 29, 2026. A US government funding shutdown looked increasingly certain Thursday after Senate Democrats rejected a key procedural vote to express anger over the killing of two protesters against President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown. The failure to approve a six-bill spending package intended to fund more than three-quarters of the federal government makes a partial shutdown starting Saturday almost impossible to avoid, although Democrats and the White House were still frantically seeking a last-minute deal. Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin work to pass a Senate bill to fund the government as multiple agencies remain in a partial shutdown.
Several sectors of the governmententered a partial shutdown just after midnight on Saturday despite the Senate’s passage of legislation hours earlier to prevent it. The shutdown is affecting the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Homeland Security.
