Speaker Mike Johnson Says House Will Reopen Government by Feb. 3
Johnson told NBC on Feb. 1, 2026 he was "confident" the House would reopen the government by Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026.
Epoch TimesHouse Speaker Says He Has Votes to End Government Shutdown This Week
Breitbart NewsSpeaker Johnson: 'Confident' Shutdown Will End by Tuesday
The GuardianPartial US government shutdown likely to continue amid funding standoff
Associated PressJohnson says no quick House vote to end partial shutdown and blames Democrats for their ICE demands
Overview
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Feb. 1, 2026 that he was "confident" the House would reopen the government by Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026 and vote on a Senate-backed funding package.
The Senate passed a package on Jan. 30, 2026 to fund five spending bills through September 2026 and to provide a two-week stopgap for the Department of Homeland Security after funding lapsed on Jan. 31, 2026, records show.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on ABC's "This Week" on Feb. 1, 2026 that Democrats will withhold votes while pressing for DHS reforms including agent identification, limits on roving patrols and warrants before certain actions.
Republicans hold a razor-thin majority in the House and lawmakers and analysts said that margin will narrow further once Rep.-elect Christian Menefee is sworn in after his Jan. 31, 2026 runoff, meaning leadership can lose only one GOP vote on party-line procedural moves.
The House Rules Committee is scheduled to meet on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026 to review the revised funding bill, and leaders said if the stopgap passes the chamber there will be two weeks to negotiate a full-year DHS funding measure.
Analysis
Center-leaning sources frame the shutdown as a tense, politically driven standoff by juxtaposing Speaker Johnson's confident soundbites with editorial emphasis on his "razor-thin majority", travel and logistical hurdles, and the Minneapolis shootings. Editorial choices (wording, sequencing, selective emphasis) heighten the crisis; quoted lines from Johnson and Democrats remain source content rather than framing.