Key Highlights
- Johnson appeared on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday and said he his hopeful that the shutdown will end "at least" by Tuesday.
- The Senate on Friday passed a funding bill that separates DHS funding and allots a two-week window for Congress to debate that topic specifically, while allowing the rest of the government to trundle on."I'm confident that we'll do it at least by Tuesday," Johnson said.
- "We have a logistical challenge of getting everyone in town and because of the conversation I had with Hakeem Jeffries, I know that we've got to pass a rule and probably do this mostly on our own." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has said Democrats will not support the current version of the bill because it provides stopgap funding for the DHS through the two-week window of debate.
- TRUMP, SCHUMER REACH GOVERNMENT FUNDING DEAL, SACRIFICE DHS SPENDING BILL IN THE PROCESS Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., is hopeful the government shutdown will end by Tuesday.
- (Kevin Dietsch/) "What is clear is that the Department of Homeland Security needs to be dramatically reformed," Jeffries told ABC News on Sunday, adding that the Senate bill is a "meaningful step in the right direction."Other Democrats were more obstinate, however, with Rep.
