House Democrats poised to rebel against Schumer spending deal, extend shutdown

House Democrats are poised to rebel against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s spending deal with the White House, Fox News Digital has learned, a move that could extend the ongoing partial government shutdown.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., made it clear to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that Republicans’ plan to rush the legislation through Monday night would fail, four House GOP sources told Fox News Digital.

That means Johnson will have to rely heavily on his razor-thin Republican majority in the House to shepherd the bill through multiple procedural hurdles before it can see a final vote, likely Tuesday at the earliest.

The federal government has been partially paralyzed since the early hours of Saturday morning after Congress failed to reach a compromise on the annual budget by the end of January 30.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speak to reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House about funding legislation to avert a September 29 government shutdown. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Some areas of government have already been funded, but spending on the Departments of War, Transportation (DOT), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among others, is now in question.

House Democrats don’t feel bound by the deal their Senate counterparts struck with President Donald Trump’s White House, the sources told Fox News Digital.

The sources said House Democrats were also frustrated that Schumer put them in a position where they were expected to accept the deal.

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“Democratic division is creating another government shutdown,” a House Republican told Fox News Digital.

But it also could be difficult for House Republican leaders to muster all the necessary votes. Several Republicans have already expressed concerns that the compromise requires them to negotiate with Democrats to curb Trump’s immigration crackdown, while others, like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, insist that their own priorities be included in exchange for their support.

Luna told Fox News Digital that she would not support the legislation if it did not include an unrelated measure that would require proof of citizenship in the voter registration process, a separate but widely accepted GOP bill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the chamber to speak with reporters after the final vote to end the longest government shutdown in history, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

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Johnson told House Republicans on a lawmakers-only call Friday that he hoped to pass the legislation under “suspension of the rules,” which would expedite passage of the bills in exchange for raising the threshold for passage from a simple majority of the chamber to two-thirds.

But now the House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper before most House-wide votes, will consider the bill Monday afternoon.

Then it must survive a House-wide “rules vote,” a procedural test vote that normally falls along party lines, before voting on final passage.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., signaled earlier Saturday to Fox News Live anchor Aishah Hasnie that he expected Jeffries to go rogue on Schumer.

“We can’t trust the minority leader to convince his members to do the right thing. That’s the problem,” Emmer told Hasnie.

The deal that passed the Senate on Friday combined five spending bills already passed by the House, while leaving out a bipartisan plan to fund DHS.

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Instead, it would fund DHS at current levels for two weeks, while Democrats and Republicans could negotiate a longer-term bill that would also curb Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Democrats demanded this following the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis during anti-ICE protests.

A member of the Border Patrol pepper sprays observers after crashing a car on Blaisdell Avenue January 21, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

But Jeffries made no promises on the deal after it passed the Senate on Friday, saying in a public statement: “The House Democratic Caucus will evaluate the Senate-passed spending legislation on its merits and then decide how to proceed legislatively.”

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If the plan is not implemented quickly, the risk is to limit or suspend the salaries of military and airport employees, as well as call into question funding for natural disaster management and federal health services.

Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Jeffries, Schumer and Johnson for additional comment but did not immediately receive a response.