House Democrats are poised to rebel against Schumer’s spending deal, extending the shutdown

House Democrats are ready to rebel against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s deal with the White House, Fox News Digital was told, 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 the Republican plan to fast-track the legislation Monday evening will fail, four House GOP sources told Fox News Digital.

That means Johnson will need to rely heavily on his slim House GOP majority to pass the bill through several procedural hurdles before seeing a final vote, which could be as early as Tuesday.

The federal government has been in a partial shutdown since early Saturday after Congress failed to reach an agreement on the annual budget by the end of January 30.

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Some areas of the government are already funded, but spending by the Departments of War, Transportation (DOT), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among others, is being questioned.

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

Sources said House Democrats were also frustrated that Schumer put them in a position where they were expected to make a deal.

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“The Democrat wing is creating another government shutdown,” one House Republican told Fox News Digital.

But it may be difficult for House GOP leaders to muster all the necessary votes. Many Republicans have already expressed concern about a compromise that would require them to negotiate with Democrats about strengthening Trump’s immigration campaign, while others such as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is pushing her own priorities to be included to gain support.

Luna told Fox News Digital that he 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 to 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 conference call with lawmakers Friday that he hopes to pass the legislation under a “suspension,” which would speed up bills to raise the chamber’s two-thirds majority threshold.

But now the House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper before a majority vote by the entire chamber, will be considering the legislation Monday afternoon.

It must then survive a “formal vote” by the entire House, a procedural test vote that often falls along party lines, before a final vote.

House Majority Leader Tom Emmer, R-Minn., signaled on Fox News Live’s Aishah Hasnie earlier Saturday that he expects Jeffries to misbehave with Schumer.

“We can’t trust a minority leader to be able to make his members do the right thing. That’s the issue,” Emmer told Hasnie.

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

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Instead, it will fund DHS at current levels for two weeks while Democrats and Republicans negotiate a long-term bill that would no longer involve Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Democrats want that after two US citizens were killed in Minneapolis during anti-ICE protests there.

A member of the Border Patrol waves to onlookers after a car accident on Blaisdell Avenue on Jan. 21, 2026, Minneapolis, Minn. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

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

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Failure to move forward with the plan immediately risks limiting or freezing pay for members of the military, airport workers, and putting funding for natural disaster management and health care services in doubt.

Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Jeffries, Schumer and Johnson for further comment but did not immediately respond.