The U.S. government was partially shut down early Saturday, despite the Senate passing a funding deal hours earlier.

The Senate voted 71-29 to approve a five-bill package and a two-week stopgap measure that gives lawmakers more time to resolve the Department of Homeland Security funding dispute.

But the House must still vote to approve a final version of the deal and is not scheduled to return to Washington until Monday. So the federal government may be entering a brief shutdown, following last year’s record 43-day shutdown.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said on a House Republican call early Friday afternoon that he would support the Senate-passed funding deal given the president’s support Donald Trumpsupport, MS NOW reports.

Johnson said he hopes the House of Representatives will pass the bill on Monday, MS NOW reported. Once approved by the House, the spending package will be sent to Trump for his signature.

Appropriations approved by Congress to fund the Departments of State, Defense, Financial Services, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Education, Housing and Urban Development and related agencies and programs expired Saturday.

Russell Vought, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Memo sent on FridayTell federal agency heads that their employees “should report to work during the next regularly scheduled work period to conduct an orderly shutdown.”

“The administration will continue to work with Congress to address recently raised concerns regarding completion of fiscal year 2026 appropriations,” Vought wrote.

“We hope this lapse will be short,” he added.

The Senate deal eliminates funding for the Department of Homeland Security and includes five other bills to fund government agencies.

The agreement calls for the Department of Homeland Security, which has been heavily criticized by Democrats for its aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, to be temporarily funded through stopgap measures, with long-term funding issues to be revisited later.

The deal has stalled in the Senate amid resistance from a handful of Republicans, preventing lawmakers from quickly considering the package.

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham earlier on Friday refused to lift his hold on the measure unless he “guarantees a vote” on his bill to criminalize so-called sanctuary city policies.

Graham wants to impose criminal penalties on state and local officials who “willfully interfere with the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”

He also wants to introduce an amendment to address the so-called “Arctic Frost” investigation conducted by then-special prosecutor Jack Smith. The amendment would require officials to notify senators after obtaining phone records as part of a criminal investigation.

The House last week added language to the spending package to repeal a law that allows senators to sue for up to $500,000 if their phone records are stolen during Arctic frost. Graham criticized the move by House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican.

Trump said in a “Truth Society” post on Thursday, Encourage legislators to support The deal will fund most of the federal government until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

Senate leaders had planned to vote on the deal Thursday night, but Graham’s insistence derailed that effort.