House GOP Searches for Votes to Reopen Government with Razor-thin Majority

This week, the House of Representatives returns to Washington with plans to find enough votes in the narrowly divided chamber to reopen the federal government, which has been partially shut since early Saturday morning after funding lapsed.

It won’t be simple: Many House Democrats do not plan to support the deal Senate Democrats struck with the White House. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) last week that his party would not help pass the package without numerous additional restrictions on immigration enforcement, according to two senior House Democratic aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private negotiations.

If most Democrats do not support the package, Republicans will need near-unanimity to pass the funding package, which President Donald Trump has endorsed. But Johnson predicted on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday that they would be able to end the shutdown "at least by Tuesday."

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