The Latest Breaking News from Mike Johnson

Speaker also admitted DHS needed to change tactics in Minneapolis after two fatal shootings

There's friction to come over funding the Department of Homeland Security.

The bill passed 71-29 and will now head to the House, which is not due back until Monday, meaning the government could be in a partial shutdown temporarily over the weekend until they pass it.

The Senate passed a spending package, averting a government shutdown by funding most agencies until September 30. A two-week Homeland Security funding extension was attached to the deal. The House will consider the package Monday, facing potential challenges from conservative hard-liners and some Democrats wary of the stopgap measure.

With choice words and blunt instruments, people chipped away at obstacles in Washington this week — and it wasn’t just the “snowcrete.”

Partial shutdown of government still expected to begin after midnight Friday, lasting at least through weekend

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham laid out a list of demands Friday to get him to allow swift action on the $1.2 trillion spending package.

“She looks like she is going to a funeral.”

"We may inevitably be in a short shutdown situation."