Stay up to date with live coverage of the government shutdown Tuesday as the House notified leaders to expect a vote Wednesday afternoon on a bill to reopen the government.
It will come after the Senate took a major step on Monday to end the longest government shutdown in American history by passing the stopgap bipartisan deal that would keep the government funded through Jan. 30, 2026.
The government has been shut down for 42 days. It began on Oct. 1.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has called the House back into session to vote on a stopgap funding bill to end the longest government shutdown in US history. Democrats and some Republicans oppose provisions, while the bill faces amendments before a final vote. A pair of Republican lawmakers expressed concern Tuesday that a provision allowing GOP senators to sue the government over former special counsel Jack Smith’s “Arctic Frost” investigation was included in legislation aimed at ending the government shutdown. "It is beside my comprehension that this got put in the bill,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said during a marathon House Rules Committee hearing on the Senate-passed bill to fund the government. “It is why people have a low opinion of this town,” Roy added. “I am torn also because we need to fund the government and we need to get this passed.” The controversial provision would allow nine GOP senators to sue the Justice Department and be eligible for up to $500,000 in damages, plus attorneys’ fees, for each instance in which their call logs were seized by Smith’s team without their knowledge. Democrats have introduced an amendment in the Rules Committee to strip the provision from the funding bill, which is expected to receive a vote in the lower chamber on Wednesday. "I've struggled with what the right course of action here is because what they did is wrong,” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said during the hearing. “This should not be in this piece of legislation."Johnson summons House back to DC to end shutdown as Jeffries tells Dems to vote 'No'
By Josh Christenson 
GOP lawmakers express concern with provision in funding bill allowing senators snooped on by Jack Smith to sue DOJ
By Victor Nava 
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced Tuesday that Democrats will attempt to remove what he called a "sick provision" in the bill to reopen the federal government that would allow Republican senators to sue the government over former special counsel Jack Smith's "Arctic Frost" investigation.
"House Democrats are going to offer an amendment before the Rules Committee to get that self-dealing, sick provision out of the spending agreement," Jeffries said during a press conference.
Up to nine Senate Republicans would be able to sue the government and be eligible for up to $500,000 in damages, plus attorneys’ fees, for each instance in which their call logs were seized by Smith’s team without their knowledge.
The measure was included in a package of funding bills to end the 42-day government shutdown that cleared the Senate Monday night.
Jeffries said the provision would allow the GOP senators snooped on by Smith to "essentially, rip millions of taxpayer dollars away from the American people so they could line their pockets."
"These people were insurrectionist sympathizers," the House minority leader charged, calling the provision "insanity."
Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy cautioned that a government shutdown could cause travel “Armageddon” over the weekend, delaying over 10% of flights and potentially grounding entire fleets. Air traffic controllers have been calling in sick, causing delays, but a spending bill approval could end the shutdown soon.
A far-left group, Indivisible, funded by billionaire George Soros, is launching its “largest primary program” to oust Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
They blame him for surrendering during the government shutdown. Indivisible aims to replace leaders who lack “backbone and conviction” to fight authoritarianism, a co-founder of the “grassroots” progressive activist hub said.
A new provision in a government funding bill allows GOP senators to sue for up to $500,000 if their phone records were seized without their knowledge during former special counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
This measure, championed by Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), aims to prevent future targeting of senators by the Department of Justice.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) revealed Tuesday that he received no outreach from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on the government shutdown and described a leadership vacuum in his party.
Fetterman reacted to an Axios report that Schumer privately lobbied moderate Dems against caving in the shutdown fight and claimed that he was never subjected to that.
"I was not in a conversation, or I never got any outreach," he said, noting that he was "always a hard yes to keep our government open."
@LawrenceBJones3: Who is running the show now in the Democratic Party?@SenFettermanPA: No one really knows. pic.twitter.com/JBdtWpgBWf
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 11, 2025
Asked about who was running the show for Democrats in the House and Senate, the hoodie-wearing Keystone Stater admitted: "No one really knows."
"My values are reflected in my vote and the things that I support here, and if that might put me at odds with parts of my party, I'm okay with that," he stressed. "We need to be a ... big tent party."
Passengers were bracing for further travel chaos at major US airports Tuesday as increased flight reductions ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) went into effect — with freezing weather in parts of the country also threatening widespread delays.
More than 1,000 flights had already been canceled across the US as of 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to FlightAware.
The FAA ordered domestic airlines last week to drop 4% of their flights at 40 high-traffic airports to cope with the government shutdown.
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) announced Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of his current term.
"It's been the most profound privilege and an honor of a lifetime to be your voice and champion in our nation's capital," Arrington, 53, said in a video message.
"I ran for Congress because I felt God calling me to it. Because I have a passion for public service."
Arrington, who was first elected to the House in 2016 and has chaired the Budget Committee since after the 2022 midterms, was a key figure in crafting and passing President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (officially the Working Families Tax Cut Act).
The congressman's West Texas district, which includes the cities of Abilene and Lubbock, is considered a safe Republican seat.
WASHINGTON — What are they smoking?
A proposed hemp ban that threatens to end the sale of scores of popular THC gummies, vapes and even beverages is tucked into a government funding bill — and could stall lawmakers’ efforts to end the longest-ever shutdown in US history.
The Senate will be voting on a full-year funding measure as part of its deal to end the shutdown — and the plan would also prohibit the unregulated sale of “intoxicating hemp-based or hemp-derived products, including Delta-8, from being sold online, in gas stations, and corner stores, while preserving non-intoxicating CBD and industrial hemp products.”
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday that he will abide by the terms of a deal ending the ongoing 41-day government shutdown — but that Republicans will pursue a new plan to replace expiring health insurance subsidies that triggered the funding lapse.
Trump said that the government would fully reopen “very quickly” amid the mass-cancelation of flights caused by federal workers taking time off to work side jobs to earn money.
“I’ll abide by the deal. The deal is very good,” the president said when asked about a provision requiring him to re-hire federal workers who were fired during the shutdown.
The deal brokered by eight Democratic senators guarantees an open vote on extending more generous pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire Dec. 31 for about 22 million people.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is taking heat from the far left of his party to step aside after the record-breaking government shutdown looked set to end with nothing to show for it.
The fumbled finish to the 41-day shutdown has Democrats bashing each other, with one senator, Angus King (I-Maine), admitting, “standing up to Trump didn’t work.”
Much of the fury is aimed at the Senate Minority Leader, 74, who claimed he opposed the capitulation deal, but whose No. 2, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), was one of eight senators to join Republicans on a plan to end the impasse that has grounded flights, furloughed federal workers, and put food stamps for hungry families on hold.
