House Leaders Race to Pass Funding Deal

Henrietta Treyz, Co-Founder at Veda Partners, discusses the latest headlines out of DC including the partial government shutdown, turmoil in the House over ICE raids, and the runoff election in Dallas that ended in a shock win.

House leaders are scrambling to pass a bipartisan deal to end a partial government shutdown by funding the majority of agencies through September with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security.

The House Rules Committee will meet at 4 p.m. today on the latest version of the spending measure (H.R. 7148; BGOV Bill Analysis) blessed by President Donald Trump, but it will be a heavy lift.

The five full-year funding bills in the deal — Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, Transportation-HUD, Financial Services-General Government, and National Security-State — passed the House last month by a bipartisan vote of 341-88. But the circumstances are different this time around with the inclusion of the two-week DHS stopgap.

Lawmakers from both parties are pushing back against the deal. That resistance partly underscores why GOP leaders had considered moving the bill under an expedited procedure that would have required a two-thirds majority instead of going through the Rules Committee, as conservatives have frequently threatened to sink procedural rule votes in the past.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) demanded GOP leaders attach the SAVE America Act (H.R. 22), legislation to require proof of citizenship to vote, to any funding bill .

“I am a hard no and will never vote for this. I am not voting for any of these appropriations unless the SAVE Act is included,” Luna said in a post on X, adding: “STOP BEING WEAKLINGS!”

Despite the resistance, Speaker Mike Johnson voiced confidence that Congress will agree on the funding deal.

“Let’s say I’m confident that we’ll do it at least by Tuesday,” Johnson (R-La.) said on NBC’s Meet the Press, adding he expects to rely solely on Republican votes to pass the measure, María Paula Mijares Torres reports.

President Donald Trump has said the “only thing” he worries about is losing Republican control of Congress in the November elections. The latest campaign finance filings show he’s built an unprecedented war chest to help keep that from happening.

Trump’s political committees and the Republican National Committee amassed $483 million through the end of December, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission. That’s nearly triple the $167 million collectively held by the Democratic National Committee and its Senate and House party committees and super PACs.

The haul comes from tapping Trump’s wealthiest donors with events like “MAGA Inc. dinners” at his Florida and New Jersey resorts as well as relentless appeals via text and email to small-dollar contributors who constitute the Make America Great Again base.

Since returning to the White House, MAGA Inc. has gotten eight-figure contributions from pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren and his company Energy Transfer LP; quant trader Jeff Yass; OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman; and Crypto.com exchange operator Foris DAX Inc. In total, M

Targeting the other end of the donor spectrum, Trump’s Never Surrender leadership PAC recently asked potential contributors to make a “small, sustaining contribution so we can complete the MAGA agenda.” It asked for as little as $33.

Whether all that financial armor is enough to buck history — incumbent presidents almost always lose ground in midterms — isn’t so clear, and Trump knows it.

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