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DHS says shutdown layoffs at CISA will proceed despite court injunction
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/dhs-says-shutdown-layoffs-cisa-will-proceed-despite-court-injunction/409332/?oref=ng-homepa…

DHS says shutdown layoffs at CISA will proceed despite court injunction
The cybersecurity agency says it has complied with the court’s order because the firing of 54 people in its Stakeholder Engagement Division was planned beforehand and doesn’t affect unionized employees.

The House narrowly passed a spending package by a 217-214 vote,
reopening the government through the rest of the fiscal year
and passing a two-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
The measure was the product of a last minute deal in the Senate last week to avoid a broader shutdown.
Democrats objected to fully funding DHS in the wake of recent fatal shootings involving immigration agents in Minneapolis.
The $1.2 trillion packag…

How every House member voted on the shutdown and ICE funding
See how your representative voted to end the partial shutdown and fund most of the government through September. Congress only has ten days to reach an agreement on ICE funding

Army base closes sole dining facility amid government shutdown
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-dfac-government-shutdown/

A Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-ice-democrats-demands-ff3aadec8eeab250aea5bf8a8ecdb960
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p88#a260205p88

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White House warns unemployment benefits at risk in shutdown (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/05/trump-white-house-shutdown-unemployment-benefits
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p148#a251104p148

OnePlus launches US preorders for the $899.99 OnePlus 15 after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/838017/oneplus-15-preorders-us

OnePlus 15 launches US preorders after delayed FCC clearance
With a 7,300mAh battery, the OnePlus 15 is one of the longest lasting smartphones on the market right now.

Trump went rogue on Truth Social on Tuesday,
contradicting his own administration’s decision a day earlier to fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown
—and potentially violating a court order in the process.
Trump’s announcement caught members of his own team off guard,
with four people with knowledge of the matter telling Politico they aren’t clear whether his post means that USDA now won’t abide by the court order.
If Trump follows through on his threat,
it…

Trump Shocks His Own Team With Decision to Defy Courts on Funding SNAP
Donald Trump says he won’t fund the food aid program until the shutdown ends—leaving members of his own administration in the dark about what happens next.

It's official. The government shutdown is the longest ever. Live updates. (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/05/government-shutdown-day-36-live-updates-election/86991382007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p85#a251105p85

DHS negotiations have yet to get underway, Thune says, as shutdown clock ticks (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/05/congress/dhs-negotiations-thune-shutdown-00767076
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p74#a260205p74

#DrumpfAdmin #FAA Blame #Democrats As They Announce Intention Of Taking Some Air Travel Routes Off Limits Temporarily Due To Overworked & Unpaid Air Traffic Controller Shortages ...

Amazing.
> US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.

The US phone #spam-reporting site is off during the government shutdown 🤦

FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 'high-volume' markets during government shutdown (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-airlines-faa-e39c423facec2b0dcc2544af48de0fa1
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p136#a251105p136

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/

FAA to throttle back flights in parts of the US as shutdown worsens air traffic controller shortages (Sam Ogozalek/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/faa-to-throttle-back-flights-in-parts-of-the-us-as-shutdown-worsens-air-traffic-controller-shortages-00638346
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p132#a251105p132

The spending package that would fund most of the federal government and end a partial shutdown
cleared a key procedural hurdle late Monday,
bringing it one step closer to a full House vote.
The House Rules Committee approved a measure that would allow Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the spending package to the House floor without any changes.
Mr. Johnson must still corral the fractious Republican House conference together to advance the measure to the floor before it …

Trump Live Updates: India Trade Deal, Partial Government Shutdown and More News

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
The cruelty, corruption, incompetence, hate fueled rule of the current USA administrati…

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.

Paramount shut down some UK MTV music channels on December 31; the main MTV channel is still on-air, despite social media claims of a global MTV shutdown (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/mtv-did-not-shut-down-despite-s…

MTV Did Not Shut Down Despite Social Media Posts
No, despite any social media posts you may have seen, MTV did not shut down in the U.S. — it's only music channels in the U.K. that were affected.

Windows 11 23H2: Nach Januar-Patchday Probleme mit Sleep und Shutdown
Die Januar-Sicherheitsupdates für Windows 11 23H2 können den Schlafmodus und das Herunterfahren stören, hat Microsoft nun eingeräumt.

@… the reboot (18:06) – very few people realise that this is a blunt instrument.
Surely harmless in your test, however clean shutdown and restart practices should be promoted.
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'National shutdown' in Utah: Protesters gather in Salt Lake City
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/01/30/national-shutdown-utah-protesters/

Trump Blames the Shutdown for Republican Election Losses (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/campaigns/trump-shutdown-republican-election-losses-new-york-zohran-mamdani
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p175#a251104p175

»The removal of the first of four steam generators from the reactor building has begun at the shutdown Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant in Germany.«
https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/steam-generator-removal-begins-at-german-plant

Steam generator removal begins at German plant
The removal of the first of four steam generators from the reactor building has begun at the shutdown Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant in Germany.  ;

Democrats Soften Their Demand To Ban Masks For ICE (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-ice-masks-dhs-shutdown_n_69839db8e4b053ac3e17298d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260204/p142#a260204p142

Trump wants Republicans to kill the filibuster. Great! (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-filibuster-nuclear-option-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p25#a251105p25

Mike Johnson’s shutdown gamble
The speaker is hoping to quell an internal Republican revolt in order to pass the funding package Tuesday.
House GOP leaders face an uphill battle to pass the revamped government funding package from the Senate, potentially dragging out the shutdown.
Speaker Mike Johnson hopes to pass the five full-year funding bills and the two-week DHS stopgap Tuesday
relying only on Republicans,
after Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told him he w…

Senate payouts unnerve some in House GOP ahead of shutdown vote - Roll Call https://rollcall.com/2025/11/12/senate-payouts-unnerve-some-in-house-gop-ahead-of-shutdown-vote/

Senate payouts unnerve some in House GOP ahead of shutdown vote - Roll Call
A Senate provision in a spending package to end the shutdown has rattled House Republicans and given new political ammunition to Democrats.

this whole "shutdown government services because politics" is truly the most insane and ridiculous "feature" of the United States government.
#uspoli #shutdown #airlines
https://globalnews.ca/news/11513116/us-government-shutdown-airport-flight-reduction/

#HoldTheLine

Shutdown progress in doubt as Democrats grow emboldened from election wins
Elections this week that energized Democrats and angered President Donald Trump have cast a chill over efforts to end the record-breaking government shutdown, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of a breakthrough despite the punishing toll of federal closures on the country. Trump has increased pressure on Senate Republicans to end the shutdown — now at 37 days, the longest in U.S. history — calling it a “big factor, negative” in the poor GOP showings across the country. Democrat…

SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/12/government-shutdown-deal-snap-medicaid/
The Intercept infuriatingly put this article behind an email wall so I'm copying it …

Trump says federal government 'should get involved' with running elections in states (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-colombia-petro-congress-shutdown-ice-immigration-live-updates-rcna256876/rcrd98532?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p125#a260203p125

USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people,
⇔ of them children.
Officials simply deny any harm,
while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it
https://www.newyork…

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
Atul Gawande writes about the short documentary “Rovina’s Choice,” by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong, which tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/29fc1e75-7bec-4011-acc3-603e51cf9fe2

Capitol agenda: Shutdown hinges on razor-thin rule vote (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/03/congress/shutdown-rule-vote-save-act-deal-filibuster-00761574
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p20#a260203p20

U.S. government partially shuts down; House vote could reopen it by Monday
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/government-shutdown-senate-vote-dhs.html

House Democrats help Mike Johnson end government shutdown (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/03/government-shutdown-ice-dhs-vote-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p92#a260203p92

Trump Pushes House Republicans to End Partial Shutdown Quickly (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pushes-house-republicans-to-end-partial-shutdown-quickly-37961020
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p134#a260202p134

House eyes Tuesday vote to reopen the government and end brief shutdown (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-tuesday-vote-end-government-shutdown-reopen-trump-rcna256782
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p121#a260202p121

Anti-ICE Protests Take Place Nationwide - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-ice-out-protests-national-shutdown-trump-administration-2026-1

One of the few good developments happening over the past 24 hours...
Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-2015-shutdown-extension-continuing-resolution/

Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill
The Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act of 2015 would go from expired to extended through Jan. 30.

Live updates: House tees up final vote to end partial government shutdown (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5718985-live-updates-trump-government-shutdown-colombia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p77#a260203p77

New court filings allege that federal and state officials withheld evidence of the Trump administration’s involvement in the Everglades detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” a revelation that could revive a court-ordered shutdown. The Jan. 7 filings come as the Miccosukee Tribe presses ahead with its legal challenge amid President Donald Trump’s recent veto of legislation expanding the tribe’s control over Everglades lands.
The filings, submitted by Friends of the Everglades…

New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ records suggest federal funding and involvement in Florida detention camp
Court filings appear to undermine DHS claims that “Alligator Alcatraz” was a state project, potentially reviving a court-ordered shutdown

House narrowly approves $1.2T funding deal to end government shutdown (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/03/us-news/house-narrowly-approves-1-2t-funding-deal-to-end-government-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p97#a260203p97

Shutdown Talks: Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund a large portion of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year,
as well as a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they continue negotiating guardrails to rein in immigration agents.
It is unclear how quickly the House can and will process those funding bills after the Senate passes them.
Cabin…

Trump Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown

Federal Shutdown Delays Friday's Jobs Report (Matt Grossman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-shutdown-delays-fridays-jobs-report-5397e815
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p91#a260202p91

Survey: What has it been like going back to work after the shutdown?
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/11/survey-what-has-it-been-like-going-back-to-work-after-the-shutdown/

Capitol agenda: Mike Johnson's shutdown gamble (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/02/congress/shutdown-vote-timeline-dhs-deal-ice-johnson-00759588
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p19#a260202p19

 Under the cover of a looming partial government shutdown and a nation reeling from immigration agent-involved killings,
⚠️the Department of Homeland Security is quietly supercharging its detention infrastructure.
A massive Navy contract vehicle, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering
💥$55 billion ceiling
to expedite Donald Trump’s
“mass deportation” agenda.
The mechanism for this expansion is the "Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple …

How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps
SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a "ghost network" of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.

Labor Department delays January jobs report because of partial shutdown (Paul Wiseman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/economy-jobs-report-labor-shutdown-0f327d71037f89afb818ea78b1162010
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p109#a260202p109

Deal to Reopen Government Is on Shaky Ground in the House (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/government-shutdown-house-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p138#a260202p138

House to vote on reopening government, extending ICE funding (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/03/house-vote-end-government-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p21#a260203p21

House clears key hurdle to reopening the government later Tuesday (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-path-end-government-shutdown-tuesday-dhs-trump-rcna257138
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p78#a260203p78

Ahead of a Friday shutdown deadline, Democrats laid out their conditions for funding the Department of Homeland Security,
including new restrictions on immigration officers.
In addition to a prohibition on federal officers wearing masks,
they also demanded that the agents wear body cameras and carry identification.
Their proposal would put an end to roving patrols
and require warrants issued by a judge for arrests and searches.
Democrats also want the fe…

Democrats Demand Unmasked Agents, New Limits to Fund D.H.S.
Ahead of a Friday shutdown deadline, Democrats laid out their conditions for funding the Department of Homeland Security, including new restrictions on immigration officers.

Senate Democrats are considering a deal that would head off a partial government shutdown
and give the party time to negotiate new restrictions on immigration operations
in response to the killings of US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
The talks, confirmed to the Guardian by a Senate aide, come after Senate Democrats demanded a series of reforms on federal agents involved in Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign,
including a prohibition on weari…

Mike Johnson told not to count on Dems' votes to end shutdown (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/31/mike-johnson-democrats-shutdown-jeffries-ice-dhs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p59#a260131p59

Social Security considers pausing more work, as shutdown takes a toll on employees
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/11/social-security-considers-pausing-more-work-as-shutdown-takes-a-toll-on-employees/

Senate passes bill to resolve shutdown clash, punting on DHS for two weeks (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-passes-bill-resolve-shutdown-clash-punting-dhs-two-weeks-rcna256540
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p137#a260130p137

The House passed this year’s final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers,
still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown,
worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government.
The four bills total about $1.2 trillion in spending
and now move to the Senate,
with final passage needed next week before a Jan. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Three of the bills had broad, bipartisan support.

House approves final spending bills as Democrats denounce ICE funding
The House has passed this year's final batch of spending bills. Lawmakers still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government. Three of the bills had broad, bipartisan support. They funded Defense and various other departments, including Education and Health and Human Services. A fourth bill funding the Department of Homeland Security was hotly disputed as Democrats voiced concerns it failed to restrain Presi…

Here's what federal programs are headed for a (possibly brief) shutdown (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/30/congress/government-shutdown-agencies-list-00758705
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p163#a260130p163

Shutdown likely to continue at least into Tuesday (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/31/shutdown-tuesday-house-votes-00759001
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p68#a260131p68

Senate shutdown deal hits a Graham snag (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2026/01/30/senate-shutdown-deal-hits-a-graham-snag-00756838
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p13#a260130p13

Senate strikes deal to avert partial shutdown (Al Weaver/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5713935-senate-deal-shutdown-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p141#a260129p141

Ever since the government shutdown,
it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration
are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both,
peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy.
https://newrepubl…

There’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun
Every single prominent member of the Trump administration has had a very, very bad week.

Sen. Lindsey Graham held up shutdown deal over provision letting him and others sue DOJ (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-lindsey-graham-held-shutdown-deal-provision-letting-others-sue-doj-rcna256725
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p123#a260130p123

Tensions boil in House over emerging Senate deal to avert government shutdown (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tensions-boil-house-over-emerging-senate-deal-avert-government-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p116#a260129p116

Trump says he and Democrats are 'getting close' to a deal to resolve shutdown fight (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-says-democrats-are-getting-close-deal-resolve-shutdown-fight-rcna256507
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p155#a260129p155

Senate aims to vote on funding deal before shutdown deadline (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/30/senate-dhs-spending-shutdown-vote/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY5NzQ5MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcxMTMxNTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk3NDkyMDAsImp0aSI6IjY2MTM1MmZjLTA4NWUtNGQ4Mi1iMDZhLTVhMzc2MjM0NjkyYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzAxLzMwL3NlbmF0ZS1kaHMtc3BlbmRpbmctc2h1dGRvd24tdm90ZS8ifQ.-fbhyfstidH42HHoJYbhQlQ18zOL3J8JTnTQfepxu3w&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p21#a260130p21

This was "a nightmare scenario," said a firefighter with the Joshua Tree National Park, who also spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
During the last government shutdown six years ago, the revelation that vandals appeared to have chopped down a few of the Dr. Seuss-esque trees grabbed national headlines.
In this instance, the firefighter estimates more than a thousand trees were torched.
Brendan Cummings, conservation director for the Center…

The working plan would only guarantee a future Senate vote on enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies,
not an extension of the credits that Democrats have made a key demand in exchange for their votes.
Even if the Senate passes the new funding measure, it would have to go back to the House for another vote before going to Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.

The latest on the government shutdown as flights disrupted and food aid benefits paused
The record-long government shutdown is affecting air travel and food stamp benefits. Follow here for the latest news updates.

White House banks on Homan to help avert shutdown (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/28/white-house-banks-on-homan-to-help-avert-shutdown-00754083
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p134#a260128p134

Democrats poised to trigger government shutdown if White House won't meet demands for ICE reform (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/senate-democrats-budget-shutdown-trump-homeland-security-5e6788e433e51399c8aa4399035aee22
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p38#a260129p38

Democrats negotiating with White House ahead of potential government shutdown (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/29/government-shutdown-democrats-whitehouse/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p78#a260129p78

Capitol agenda: Democrats and White House in last-ditch talks to avert extended shutdown (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/29/congress/shutdown-deadline-dhs-funding-vote-ice-00754278
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p58#a260129p58

Most of Iran Shuts Down as Government Grapples With Protests and Economy (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/middleeast/iran-shutdown-protests.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p77#a251231p77

The Two Big Decisions Facing Democrats Ahead of a Shutdown (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-two-big-decisions-facing-democrats-ahead-of-a-shutdown-bb4078a2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p20#a260128p20

How Mike Johnson is scrambling to keep the shutdown short (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/02/congress/mike-johnson-save-act-spending-00760523
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p94#a260202p94

Capitol agenda: No shutdown deal in sight (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/27/congress/shutdown-dhs-ice-funding-minnesota-shooting-00748768
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p30#a260127p30

No off-ramp in sight for DHS-fueled shutdown (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/26/government-shutdown-dhs-minnesota-00748628
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p148#a260126p148

Democrats Embrace a Shutdown Fight They Wanted to Avoid (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/democrats-shutdown-ice-shooting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p145#a260126p145

Mike Johnson braces for conservative revolt over ICE funding deal (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/30/mike-johnson-republicans-ice-funding-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p147#a260129p147

Shutdown Risk Rises as GOP Dismisses Threat to Block DHS Funds (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/shutdown-risk-rises-as-gop-dismisses-threat-to-block-dhs-funds
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p92#a260125p92

Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-plot-strategy-dhs-standoff-deepens-heading-shutdown-w-rcna255869
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p9#a260126p9

Democrats Announce 3 Key Demands For Curbing ICE (HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-ice-government-shutdown-dhs_n_697a7028e4b025706e868e94
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p29#a260129p29

Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes (Susan Haigh/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/liheap-heating-assistance-shutdown-0edc6a7a1647c5d54e2c0fbf4aa27313
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p55#a251128p55

Schumer calls on GOP to move funding package without DHS money to avoid shutdown (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5705725-government-shutdown-schumer-dhs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p70#a260125p70

Top DOJ official posts picture of himself with Sidney Powell (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-cabinet-senate-government-shutdown-iran-venezuela-live-updates-rcna255849/rcrd97982?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p68#a260129p68

How Dems Can Tame ICE (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-dems-can-tame-ice-spending-shutdown-congress-minnesota
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p44#a260128p44

The DHS crisis is squeezing Susan Collins (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/susan-collins-dhs-ice-shutdown-00751545
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p9#a260128p9

Body cameras, warrants top list of Democrats' ICE demands (Stephen Neukam/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/28/senate-democrats-ice-demands-masks-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p101#a260128p101

Trump: There is 'probably' going to be another government shutdown (Finya Swai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/22/congress/donald-trump-government-shutdown-00741021
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p143#a260122p143

How Mike Johnson plans to beat the deadline on a government shutdown (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/21/congress-government-shutdown-mike-johnson-dhs-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p138#a260120p138

The unjust killing of Alex Pretti marks a turning point in Trump's second term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/25/minneapolis-immigration-killing-government-shutdown-ice-alex-pretti/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p81#a260126p81

Congress releases massive funding bill ahead of shutdown deadline as ICE clash looms (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-releases-massive-funding-bill-ahead-shutdown-deadline-ice-cla-rcna254968
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p72#a260120p72

Will Democrats Force Another Government Shutdown Over Health Care? (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-government-shutdown-trump_n_69444dbbe4b0fd459ef0a74f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p21#a251219p21

Crockett: 'I see the government shutting down' in January (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5662745-government-shutdown-threat-january/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p70#a251224p70

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/29/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p127#a260129p127

ICE is clearly out of control. This week the Senate can actually do something about it. (Mike Zamore/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/ice-funding-alex-pretti-shooting-senate-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p19#a260125p19

Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and Democrats say (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/shutdown-spending-deal-trump-00756372
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p132#a260129p132