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The House appears on track to end the longest government shutdown in history as lawmakers rush back to Capitol Hill after a six-week break in session.
The House Rules Committee will meet to consider the Senate's amended federal funding plan sometime after 5 pm on Tuesday, two sources told Fox News Digital.
In other words, the 42-day shutdown, which has caused thousands of flight delays, left millions of people who rely on federal benefits in limbo and forced thousands of federal workers to either quit or work for free, could end before the end of this week.
The House Rules Committee is the final hurdle for most bills before seeing a vote by the full House. Lawmakers who sit on a key panel vote to advance the bill while determining the terms of its consideration, such as possible votes on amendments and the timing of debate.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, briefs the media on the timing of a possible government shutdown at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, November 10, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
funding bill The candidate is expected to advance through the committee along party lines. Democrats on the panel are likely to oppose the measure, as are House Democratic leaders, while Republicans have expressed little opposition.
Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, the committee Republicans who have most often opposed GOP leaders' legislation for being insufficiently conservative, both suggested they would support the funding measure.
Roy told Fox News Digital Monday night that he will vote “yes” on the bill in the House, meaning he likely won't oppose it in the House Rules Committee.
A Texas Republican is currently running for attorney general of the Lone Star State.
Norman told Fox News Digital via text message Tuesday morning when asked about the vote in both the Rules Committee and the House: “My support is based on READING THE FINE PRINT as it relates to the three bills, especially the Total Spending Caps TEST, that we passed previously.”
“If 'THE FINE PRINT MATCHES' what is being reported, I'll say yes,” Norman said.
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The South Carolina Republican running for governor was referring to three full-year spending bills that are part of the latest bipartisan compromise passed by the Senate Monday night.
Terms of the deal include a new extension of federal funding levels for fiscal year (FY) 2025 through Jan. 30 to give congressional negotiators more time to reach a long-term agreement on spending for fiscal year 2026.
Rep. Chip Roy sits next to Rep. Ralph Norman as he listens during a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 21, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
It would also give lawmakers some progress toward that mission by advancing a bill to fund the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration; Veterans Affairs and Military Construction Administration; and legislative power.
These are three of 12 separate bills intended to form annual congressional appropriations, combined into a vehicle called a minibus.
In a victory for Democrats, the agreement also reverses federal layoffs implemented by the Trump administration in October, with those workers still being paid while they are away.
It also guarantees Senate Democrats a vote on legislation to extend Obamacare Subsidies which were strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic and are set to expire at the end of this year.
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Extending enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was a key Democratic demand in the weeklong standoff.
But no such guarantee was provided in the House, so Democrats effectively abandoned their key demand to end the shutdown – a move that infuriated progressive and left-wing caucus leaders in Congress.
The full House is expected to take up the measure sometime after 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to a notice sent to lawmakers.
View of the US Capitol in Washington, November 4, 2024. (Nicholas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
There will first be a “proper vote” on the bill, during which lawmakers are expected to greenlight debate in the House, followed by a vote on the measure itself sometime Wednesday night.
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The meeting schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday was deliberately kept flexible to allow lawmakers to return to Washington amid nationwide delays and cancellations largely caused by the quarantine.
The House of Representatives last met on September 19, when lawmakers passed legislation to fund the government until November 21.
It passed with the support of one House Democrat, Jared Golden, D-Maine, and opposition from two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Victoria Spartz, R-Indiana.
So far, not a single House Republican has expressed public opposition to the new measure.
