The U.S. Capitol is seen on a sunset a day before the House prepares to vote on a bill to reopen the government at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 11, 2025.
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First votes are scheduled for 5:10 p.m., with the vote to end the shutdown expected after 7 p.m. Democrats are expected to largely vote against the bill, but some moderates may vote along with Republicans to approve it.
Once passed, it heads to President Donald Trump for his signature, and he has indicated that he will sign it. That could happen as soon as Wednesday night.
-ABC News' Justin Gomez
Nov 12, 2025, 2:10 AM EST
Key House committee advances government funding package
The House Rules Committee voted 8-4 to advance the Senate-passed government funding package -- sending the legislation to the House floor for consideration.
The U.S. Capitol is seen on a sunset a day before the House prepares to vote on a bill to reopen the government at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025.
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The committee gaveled out the long hearing at 1:37 a.m. ET.
The House will next debate the measure, which could reopen the federal government, with the intention of holding votes as early as 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
-ABC News’ Lauren Peller and Alex Ederson
Nov 11, 2025, 9:03 PM EST
Jeffries says Democrats will try to strike Senate provision from funding bill
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that House Democrats will offer an amendment during the ongoing Rules Committee meeting to remove an amendment from the Senate version of the bill that would allow for senators to sue if their phone records are investigated without notice.
"House Democrats are going to offer an amendment before the Rules Committee to get that self-dealing, sick provision out of the spending agreement. The notion that eight Republican senators signed off by John Thune and the Republicans, apparently in the Senate and in the House, would give themselves the ability, essentially, to rip millions of taxpayer dollars away from the American people so they could line their pockets because these people were insurrectionist sympathizers, is insanity," Jeffries said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks to reporters on day 37 of the federal government shutdown at the US Capitol in Washington, November 6, 2025.
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"And we're going to tattoo that provision just like we're going to tattoo the Republican health care crisis on the foreheads of every single House Republican who dares vote for this bill,” he added.
According to the bill text, senators may seek up to $500,000 in statutory damages from the government if their phone records are subpoenaed without their knowledge.
That amendment is likely to fail the Rules Committee.
-ABC News’ Meghan Mistry
Nov 11, 2025, 7:59 PM EST
Jeffries says House Democrats will oppose bill to reopen the government
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that it is his "strong expectation" that House Democrats will oppose the funding bill that would reopen the government tomorrow.
The House is expected to vote on that bill Wednesday afternoon, though there is no specific timing yet.
Speaking alongside other Democratic lawmakers ahead of a Rules Committee meeting on Tuesday evening, Jeffries unveiled a proposed amendment calling for a three-year extension of Obamacare subsidies.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters a day before the House prepares to vote on a bill to reopen the government at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025.
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"You now have an opportunity to actually take some action in an area of this health care crisis by working with Democrats before the Rules Committee this evening to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits," Jeffries told his Republican colleagues.
Ranking Member of the Rules Committee Jim McGovern said he took the train down from Massachusetts today in order to make the Rules Committee meeting.
"I got an earful from a lot of people," he said. "People are pissed."
He added, "I've had constituents come up to me and tell me that, that, you know, they don't know what they're going to do. I mean, they can't afford the skyrocketing costs of their health insurance. This is a life or death issue for people."
