Senate Passes $1.2 Trillion Spending Package After Graham Hold

Senate negotiators locked in a deal late Friday to pass five fiscal 2026 appropriations bills and a $1.2 trillion package with a two-week Homeland Security stopgap through Feb. 13, but the measure must return to the House, negotiators said.

The agreement followed the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers, which led Senate Democrats to insist DHS be split from the full-year package and pushed for additional reforms, negotiators said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., placed a hold Thursday over repeal of a provision allowing senators to sue the Department of Justice and demanded guaranteed votes on his sanctuary-cities measure and revised Arctic Frost phone-records language before he lifted the hold, he said on the Senate floor.

The package comprises five full-year fiscal 2026 bills — Defense; Labor-HHS-Education; Financial Services; National Security-State; and Transportation-HUD — and requires House approval next week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said.

The House Rules Committee could meet as soon as Sunday with floor votes as early as Monday, and House Republicans may press to add proposals such as a voter ID requirement while House Democrats warned they would seek impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if she is not removed, party leaders said.