Washington, 03 February (H.S.): United States President Donald Trump exhorted the House of Representatives on today(February 2, 2026), to enact a Senate-approved spending bill sans amendments, thereby terminating a three-day government shutdown precipitated by Democratic indignation over federal immigration agents' fatal shooting of two Minneapolis protesters, which torpedoed funding deliberations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Impasse Origins: Protester Deaths Derail Dialogue

The closure ensued from ruptured negotiations, as Democrats decried the killings by DHS personnel, stalling appropriations for the sprawling security apparatus amid acrimonious recriminations; late on January 30, 2026, the Senate greenlit five omnibus funding measures sustaining most federal entities through September, conjoined with a fortnight's DHS stopgap pending immigration policy arbitration.

Bipartisan Brinkmanship: GOP Rebels and Fragile Majority

Trump's Truth Social missive implored bipartisan dispatch—send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY—eschewing alterations despite conservative Republicans' fulminations and threats to torpedo the package during Tuesday's House vote, invoking aversion to protracted paralysis akin to last summer's 43-day record stoppage that ravaged non-essential operations.

House Speaker Mike Johnson professed certitude of consummation by February 3, 2026, on Fox News Sunday, yet his attenuated Republican plurality—further attenuated by a Texas Democrat's special-election triumph—precludes more than solitary GOP defection without Democratic succor.

Horizon Hurdles: DHS Showdown Looms Anew

Passage would reprieve furloughs and unpaid labor, but bequeath a mere 14 days for a comprehensive DHS fiscal blueprint, fraught with Democratic mandates for warrants in immigration sweeps by masked agents and conservative countermeasures, portending renewed partisan trench warfare.

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