Government shutdown updates: Trump signs government funding bill

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed strong opposition to the government funding package that the House will vote on Wednesday night.

“This fight is not over. We're just getting started. We'll fight today, we'll fight tomorrow, we'll fight this week, we'll fight next week, we'll fight this month, we'll fight next month, we'll fight until we win this battle for the American people,” Jeffries said.

He said the bill fails to address the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits.

“Donald Trump and Republicans made the decision to shut the government down. The longest shutdown in American history was rather do that than provide health care that's affordable to working class Americans, middle class Americans and hard working American taxpayers all across the country,” he said.

Jeffries said Democrats will take back the House next year.

“There's only two ways that this fight will end. Only two ways, Mr. Speaker, that this fight will end: Either Republicans finally decide to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits this year, or the American people will throw Republicans out of their jobs next year and in the speakership of Donald J. Trump once and for all, that's how this fight ends,” he said.

Jeffries had unlimited speaking time during the debate on the bill but only spoke for about 15 minutes.

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The House is now debating the government funding package. Each side will receive 30 minutes of debate, totaling up to one hour.

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The House cleared a key procedural hurdle by a vote of 213-209 to advance the government funding package for full consideration on the House floor.

The chamber is to move on to debate the funding package shortly.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday he would "definitely" sue under new language in the Senate version of the government funding bill that would give senators a legal pathway for senators to sue if their phone records are investigated without their notice.

Graham is one of the senators whose phone data was accessed by special counsel Jack Smith as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

"And if you think I am going to settle this thing for a million dollars? No. I want to make it so painful no one ever does this again," Graham said during a news conference.

Other Republican senators who had their records supoenaed were split.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn's office suggested in a statement to ABC News that she would pursue legal action.

Representatives for Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said he has no plans to sue, as did Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc.

"If I did sue, it would only be for the purpose of using the courts to expose the corrupt weaponization of federal law enforcement by the Biden and Obama administrations," Johnson said in a statement to ABC News.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin