House Democrats Ready to Rebel Against Schumer Spending Deal and Extend Shutdown

House Democrats are on the verge of rebelling against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's spending deal with the White House, Fox News Digital is told, a move that could prolong the current 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 Monday night would fail, four House GOP sources told Fox News Digital.

That means Johnson will need to lean heavily on his narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives to clear the bill through multiple procedural hurdles before it can have a final vote, likely Tuesday at the earliest.

The federal government has been in a partial shutdown 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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Some areas of the government have already been 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 now in question.

House Democrats do not feel bound by the deal their Senate counterparts reached with President Donald Trump's White House, sources told Fox News Digital.

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

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“The Democratic divide creates another government shutdown,” one House Republican told Fox News Digital.

But it could also be difficult for House Republican leaders to muster all the votes needed. Several Republicans have already expressed concern about the compromise that requires them to negotiate with Democrats to stop Trump's immigration crackdown, while others, like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., are pushing for their own priorities to be included in exchange for their 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 bill but widely accepted by the Republican Party.

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 an exclusive call for lawmakers Friday that he hoped to pass the legislation under “suspension of the rules,” which would speed up 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 legislation Monday afternoon.

It must then survive a House-wide “rules vote” — a procedural test vote that typically falls along partisan lines — before a vote on final approval.

House Majority Leader Tom Emmer, R-Minn., indicated to Fox News Live host Aishah Hasnie earlier Saturday that he expected Jeffries to turn rogue on Schumer.

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

The deal that passed the Senate on Friday combined five spending bills that have already passed the House, leaving aside 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 rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Democrats demanded that in the wake of the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis during anti-ICE protests there.

A Border Patrol member pepper sprays observers after being involved in a car accident on Blaisdell Avenue on January 21, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (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 evaluate the spending legislation passed by the Senate on its merits and then decide how to proceed legislatively.”

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Failure to move forward with the plan quickly risks limiting or suspending paychecks for military service members and airport workers, as well as calling into question funding for natural disaster management and federal healthcare services.

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