WASHINGTON ― There are no signs of a deal to end the partial government shutdown, but one thing is changing on Capitol Hill: the House majority. House Democrats plan to pass a combined six spending bills funding all the closed government agencies through September, with a separate stopgap bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through February. “It is time to end this unnecessary shutdown and put the federal government fully back to work serving the American people,” incoming Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) As Washington ― and the rest of the United States ― comes back from its holiday break, pressure to end the shutdown may grow. Americans already blame Trump more for the shutdown than Democrats, by a margin of 47 percent to 33 percent.

Source: Huffington Post January 02, 2019 20:48 UTC